Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics

Ideologies and Utopia

Benoît Walraevens — 2023-07-11

In his most recent books, Piketty offers a global history of inequality in its economic, social, political, and intellectual dimensions, arguing that history is moved by the struggle of ideologies. To take part in this battle of ideas, he conceives a new ideal model of society, ‘participative socialism’, as an egalitarian alternative to the dominant neoproprietarian ideology and to the dangerous resurgence of nationalism and populism. This paper provides a new interpretation of Piketty’s view of history and of his participatory socialism in light of Paul Ricoeur’s study of the dialectics of ideology and utopia. First, I present Ricoeur’s singular analysis of ideology and utopia, which he sees as two inseparable facets of social imagination. Then I show how Ricoeur’s concepts can be fruitfully applied to Piketty’s conception of history and to his conception of a new form of socialism for the 21^st century, drawing lessons from history and forming a ‘good’ or ‘realist’ utopia. Finally, I demonstrate that this interpretation of Piketty’s socialism can help to better understand some of the criticisms he has received.

Reflections on the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize Awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist, and Guido Imbens

Lennart B. Ackermans — 2023-07-04

The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to David Card “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”, and to Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”. Lennart B. Ackermans reflects on Card, Angrist, and Imben's work.

Reflections on the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize Awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig

Jens van 't Klooster — 2023-05-08

The 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises”. Jens van 't Klooster reflects on Bernanke, Diamond, and Dybvig's work.

Gender in the Labor Market

Anne Sophie Lassen — 2023-04-06

Elucidating the Role of Value Judgments in Normative Economics

Nestor Lovera Nieto — 2023-05-11

A Model-Based and Mechanistic Approach to Social Coordination

Matti Sarkia — 2023-05-16

Uncertainty for Uncertain Decision-Makers

Malvina Ongaro — 2023-05-16

Review of Conrad Heilmann and Julian Reiss’ (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, xvi + 516 pp.

D. Wade Hands — 2023-03-15

Review of Robert Skidelsky’s What’s Wrong With Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2020, ix + 248 pp.

Ella Needler — 2023-05-18

Review of Susumu Egashira, Masanori Taishido, D. Wade Hands, and Uskali Mäki’s (editors) A Genealogy of Self-Interest in Economics. Singapore: Springer, 2021, vi + 325 pp.

Stavros A. Drakopoulos — 2023-06-23

Review of Mariusz Maziarz’s The Philosophy of Causality in Economics: Causal Inferences and Policy Proposals. New York: Routledge, 2020, xiv + 208 pp.

Fernando Varela Levy — 2023-06-29

Review of Michael A. Wilkinson’s Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021, xvi + 335 pp.

David Hollanders — 2023-06-29

Review of Anna Horodecka’s Human Nature in Modern Economics: Structure, Change and Perspectives. Abingdon and New York, NY: Routledge, 2022, viii + 264 pp.

Andres Lazzarini — 2023-07-28

Editorial Note

Tully Rector — 2023-07-28

The Injustice of Domination

S.M. Love — 2023-06-30

As part of a book symposium on Nicholas Vrousalis' Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust (2023), S.M. Love argues that only the Kantian view can justify Vrousalis’ argument for the injustice of exploitation, and gives a more detailed account of the injustice of domination within the Kantian framework.

What Makes Exploitation Wrongful?

Lucas Stanczyk — 2023-05-29

As part of a book symposium on Nicholas Vrousalis' Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust (2023), Lucas Stanczyk argues that his reciprocity account of the central wrong-making feature of domination is superior to Vrousalis' domination account.

Exploitation and Domination in Application

Gulzaar Barn — 2023-06-22

As part of a book symposium on Nicholas Vrousalis' Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust (2023), Gulzaar Barn suggests that while Vrousalis' account provides a compelling story of why capitalist labour relations are unjustly exploitative, difficulties arise in its application to other cases such as surrogacy.

Responses

Nicholas Vrousalis — 2023-07-28