Social Provisioning vs. Predatory Habits: An Ancient Yet Contemporary Battle

Felipe Almeida

Journal of Economic Issues, 2023, vol. 57, issue 2, 407-413

Abstract: Institutional economics has been addressing humans’ predatory habits since its early years. These habits lead to people exploiting and exploring other people and nature. Through predatory habits, people feel that they own, and consequently command, other people and nature. This is at the core of Thorstein Veblen’s writings. Other institutionalists offer opportunities to deal with predation, such as John R. Commons’ reasonable capitalism and Clarence Ayres’ reasonable society. This article highlights a possible path toward reasonableness, offering a possibility for the reconstruction of habits through the connection between the institutionalist notion of habits and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Date: 2023
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