From Identity to Agency in Positive and Normative Economics

Florence Gallois () and Cyril Hédoin
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Florence Gallois: REGARDS - Recherches en Économie Gestion AgroRessources Durabilité Santé- EA 6292 - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne - MSH-URCA - Maison des Sciences Humaines de Champagne-Ardenne - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

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Abstract: his paper argues about the importance to reflect over what constitutes the identity of the economic agent, both from the perspective of positive and normative economics. Regarding the former, we suggest that several aspects of social and personal identity are essential to explain market coordination on the basis of the existence of communities. Regarding the latter, we claim that the evaluation of social states through the aggregation of individual utilities depends on a commitment over an account of who the economic agent is.

Keywords: identity; market coordination; welfare economics; economic agent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11-06
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Published in Forum for Social Economics, 2017, pp.1-17. ⟨10.1080/07360932.2017.1394897⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/07360932.2017.1394897

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