03984nam a22006135i 4500 978-3-031-69722-7 DE-He213 20251030113054.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240919s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031697227 978-3-031-69722-7 10.1007/978-3-031-69722-7 doi HB72 KCA bicssc BUS069030 bisacsh KCA thema Sanchis i Marco, Manuel. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84667 The Poverty of Economics [electronic resource] : The Philosophical Anatomy of an Empty Rationality / by Manuel Sanchis i Marco. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XIII, 141 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Ethical Economy, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy, 2211-2723 ; 69 PART ONE ECONOMICS METHOD AND RATIONALITY -- CHAPTER 1 WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ECONOMICS TODAY -- CHAPTER II THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN ECONOMICS -- CHAPTER III RATIONALITY IN ECONOMICS -- PART TWO ECONOMICS AND JUSTICE THE LONG JOURNEY -- CHAPTER IV MEANINGS OF JUSTICE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ECONOMICS -- CHAPTER V MEANINGS OF JUSTICE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY. This book improves the alignment of economics with the idea of justice, the first virtue of any social institution, according to Rawls. To this aim, it provides the analytical framework necessary to ensure a just economy. While today’s notion of economics favours the economics of extortion, this book proposes a model that transcends Lionel Robbins’ canonical relationship between ends and means, as it proposes a broader notion of rationality incorporating the range of human attributes. In contrast to Robbins' economic rationality, economic choices must be based on adequate and good reasons, as Rescher claims, because both the means and the ends require rational deliberation. As a result, the book challenges Robbins’ hope of turning general concepts like scarcity, costs, etc. into universal economic principles guiding human behavior in a vacuum. It disputes the idea that, through the application of the abstract formulation of economic statements unconnected to reality, economics can be rationalized in a morally neutral space, based on empty rationality. By contrasting the three rival versions of economics —formalism (axiomatic), empiricism (technocratic-consequential), and institutionalism (axio-ideological)— the book shows that it is not possible to switch between them as they refer to segmented mental universes of abstraction. Philosophy. 66189 Economics. 58354 Business. 58353 Management science. 57941 Management. 324 Business ethics. 58372 Ethics. 58934 Philosophy of Economics. 74765 Business and Management. Philosophy of Management. 72086 Business Ethics. 58372 Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. 66410 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031697210 Printed edition: 9783031697234 Printed edition: 9783031697241 Ethical Economy, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy, 2211-2723 ; 69 77617 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69722-7 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 63548 63548