Economics for (and by) humans

IF 1.6 Q2 ECONOMICS

REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY Pub Date : 2020-07-23 DOI:10.1080/00346764.2020.1792966

J. Nelson

引用次数: 5

Abstract

ABSTRACT This essay discusses the nature of, and challenges for, social economics. It begins by exploring how social economics differs from mainstream economics in its goals, definition, and models, and briefly examines the roots of Neoclassical orthodoxy. It then argues that social economists need to take more seriously the human and social nature of our created knowledge. An example from the empirical study of gender and risk preferences illustrates the effects of personal and cultural factors. The essay also argues that social economists have not yet sufficiently challenged the orthodox economics view of the economy as an ethics-free sphere. This view has contributed to increased inequality and a failure to act decisively in response to climate change. A better understanding of where orthodox economics models and methods come from opens up new ways of understanding our search for knowledge and emphasizes the importance of ethics in economic life.

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人类经济学

本文讨论了社会经济学的本质及其面临的挑战。本书首先探讨了社会经济学在目标、定义和模型上与主流经济学的不同之处，并简要考察了新古典主义正统的根源。然后，它认为社会经济学家需要更认真地看待我们创造的知识的人性和社会性。一个关于性别和风险偏好的实证研究的例子说明了个人和文化因素的影响。这篇文章还认为，社会经济学家还没有充分挑战正统的经济学观点，即经济是一个没有伦理的领域。这种观点加剧了不平等，也导致各国未能采取果断行动应对气候变化。更好地理解正统经济学模型和方法的来源，为理解我们对知识的追求开辟了新的途径，并强调了伦理在经济生活中的重要性。

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来源期刊

REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

10.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： For over sixty-five years, the Review of Social Economy has published high-quality peer-reviewed work on the many relationships between social values and economics. The field of social economics discusses how the economy and social justice relate, and what this implies for economic theory and policy. Papers published range from conceptual work on aligning economic institutions and policies with given ethical principles, to theoretical representations of individual behaviour that allow for both self-interested and "pro-social" motives, and to original empirical work on persistent social issues such as poverty, inequality, and discrimination.