Tag Archives: Doctrine economice
“The Recent Economist”: Between Scientific Relativism and the Recourse to Ethics
In society’s evolution, ideas are the essential ferments of any change. There are no implacable laws of history and the future is not written in the stars or, to the “delight” of (macro) contemporary supporters of quantitative approaches, in the cyber-economic models that became the sterile fashion of economics journals – where exactly ‘economics’ is the endangered scientific
Institutions and Prosperity (I)
Against mainstream considerations, the history of modern economic development does not identify itself with the history of technological progress, but with the history of “rights”, conceived as a (economical and juridical) “technology” that structures human interaction within society. This evolution is inseparable from the genesis of capitalism and of the modern system of
