The morality of the market process and the normative implications of catallactic competition

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-55
Author(s):  
Rosolino A. Candela
Author(s):  
Paul Dragos Aligica

This chapter starts with a brief comparative overview of the distinctive theoretical core of market process theory, preparing the way for a systematic presentation of what the capitalist market system looks like when framed through theoretical lenses shaped by a process view. Noting that such an approach has analytical, explanatory, and normative implications, the chapter focuses on the normative aspects. Its objective is twofold: first, to show how descriptive and analytical process theory requires and transmutes into a specific form of normative process theory and, second, to identify the convergence points with the existing relevant literatures, themes, and theoretical perspectives that are (or should be) part of the conceptual and logical elaboration of this normative political economy framework.


1998 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 554-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Grantham

THE concept of ownership is a complex, powerful and controversial idea. In law it explains, justifies and gives moral force to a host of rights and duties as well as serving to legitimate the allocation of wealth and privilege. The influence of this idea is, furthermore, everywhere embodied in the law. In company law, legal and economic conceptions have both rested on and have been shaped by the normative implications of ownership. Historically, ownership was the principal explanation and justification for the central role of shareholders in corporate affairs. As owners, shareholders were entitled to control the management of the company and to the exclusive benefit of the company's activities. Ownership also served to legitimate the corporate form itself. So long as it was owned by individuals the economic and political power of the company was both benign and a bulwark against the intrusion of the state.


Human Affairs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-174
Author(s):  
Nikola Kallová

Abstract This paper explores happiness as an aim of education, particularly schooling. What role does happiness play in philosophy of education? How do critics view the aims of public schooling today and its relation to happiness? Is happiness embedded in the concept of education as an aim of education? The paper explores happiness—understood inclusively as a positive mental state—by examining the relevant literature from various disciplines. It looks briefly at critical views of current trends in public school practice and concludes that happiness is not a central concern in present public school practice. Turning to philosophy of education, the author finds that happiness has been considered in relation to the philosophical conception of the human self and consequently eudaimonia has been prioritized over hedonia. The paper concludes by proposing that happiness is an appropriate and valid aim of education and schooling based on the normative implications of the concept of education.


2021 ◽  
pp. 048661342199044
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Zhun Xu

This paper studies the historical evolution of China’s gender relations through the lens of housework time allocation. In particular, we highlight the role played by social class and income. Drawing upon data from the Chinese Health and Nutrition Survey, we find that during the period 1991–2011, being a peasant or earning less than the spouse was increasingly associated with a higher share of housework. The market process appears to have indirectly improved the social status of women (most likely rural women) married to peasant husbands as measured by the former’s declining housework share. Such changes, however, have not challenged traditional patriarchal norms in the countryside and have even facilitated the rise of a new market-based patriarchy. Policy makers should empower women by tackling the different faces of patriarchy as a whole. JEL Classification: B51, J16, P16


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