Through vulnerability and passion. On the anthropological foundations of economic science
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Nicolò Bellanca
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/50
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 133-146 File size 541 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2014-050007
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In standard economic models human action is driven solely by self-interest while the passions are supposed to interfere with our ability to form rational beliefs and to make rational choices. Nevertheless, without the passions there would be little reason to act. In fact, any action originated and nurtured by passions places its own raison d’être in itself. The acts motivated by passions can either improve or (even) worsen one’s wellbeing: there might not be any payoff in both the present and the future and monetary incentives do not influence or mitigate their nature. Above all, under the influence of the passions, the actor does not calculate but instead ‘loses control’. This paper argues against the separation of passion-infused intimate relations and economic theory through a reconsideration of the anthropological conception of the economics.
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Nicolò Bellanca, Vulnerabili e appassionati. Sui fondamenti antropologici della scienza economica in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 50/2014, pp 133-146, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2014-050007