Selecting Social Goals: J. M. Keynes and the Emergence of Ontological Rationality in Economics

L. Johnson, R. Ley and Thomas Cate

International Advances in Economic Research, 2005, vol. 11, issue 3, 300 pages

Abstract: In this paper we discuss the fundamental inconsistency that results from employing the two traditional concepts of rationality as the basis of selecting social goals. We then consider the possibility that the selection of social goals must be based on explicitly ethical criteria. To do so a third concept of rationality namely, ontological rationality, should be adopted. Moreover, we argue that J. M. Keynes in A Tract Monetary Reform based his public policy recommendations on a modified version of ontological rationality, thereby introducing ontological rationality into economics as the basis for selecting social goals. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2005

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Date: 2005
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