Review of Economic Philosophy

Tag: Property

  • From Universal to Economic Ontology

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    This article first offers a simplified version of a universal ontology, conceived as a general framework for description of the material and mental world. It analyzes the notions of entity, property, relation and temporality and their joint development in terms of relationship between parts and whole or else of emergence of a new entity. It illustrates the preceding principles as concerns economic science, for which the entities are the agents, the goods and the institutions. It then insists on the coupling the latter achieves between physical and psychological properties as well as the reasoning it proposes in terms of equilibrium and more recently learning.

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  • From Capital to Property : History and Justice in the Work of Thomas Piketty

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    This article is devoted to Thomas Piketty’s latest book, Capital and Ideology (2019). We begin by placing the book within the argument developed by the author in his previous works, before pointing out a number of limitations. We first question Piketty’s way of thinking about capitalism, before coming to his theory of ideology. Finally, we will try to define the contours and limits of Piketty’s project of overcoming capitalism, ie. his vision of a just society, of a “participative socialism”, as it is presented in the last chapter of the book.

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  • The naturalization of private ownership

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    When property and its origin have been conceived in the history of philosophy, they have been interpreted in the framework of nature, including at a time when property, both private and common, was already regulated by a system of legal norms. Property and its legitimacy were then considered on the borders of facts (such as appropriation) and law. Nevertheless, the foregrounding of a natural necessity and the interpretation of the appropriation in a naturalistic framework tend to set property aside from the issue of distributive justice. Furthermore, the naturalistic perspective on private appropriation involves a pragmatic use of the legal norm. The latter reverses “Hume’s law” even though the legal norm could also be legitimately considered to justify the “ought” rather than to establish, in legal terms, an empirical state of the world.

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