Values as consequences of transaction: commentary on 'Reconciling homo economicus and John Dewey's ethics'
| Autor: | Frank X. Ryan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Methodology. 10:245-257 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9427 1350-178X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1350178032000071101 |
| Popis: | Mark White hopes to incorporate John Dewey's appeal to deliberation in preference formation into the neoclassical model of choice. White finds affinities between Dewey and neoclassicism: both reject preordained goals, value consequences above motives, and promote 'scientific ethics.' I claim Dewey's actual theory of value and choice is more radically divergent, and may not simply be integrated with neoclassical model. Specifically, I claim: 1) White's interactional view of agents acting in an environment falls short of Dewey's transactional notion of their reciprocal determination within problem-solving activity; 2) beyond both preference and deliberation, the consequence of valuation activity is the final determinant of a good; 3) Dewey did not advocate relinquishing ethics to the natural and social sciences, but rather viewed moral behavior as the cultivation of a unique 'art.' |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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