Philosophy and Economics: Recent Issues and Perspectives. Introduction to the Special Issue

Abstract

From its beginning, economic thinking has been deeply intertwined with philosophical considerations. The most important early economic thinkers, from Aristotle to Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, were of course also and (for some of them) foremost philosophers. Though the Marginalist revolution and the rise of neoclassical economics at the end of the 19th century have contributed to the constitution...