Sickonomics: Diagnoses and Remedies

Abstract

The Business School at the University of Hertfordshire (UH) employs approximately 150 academic staff in a state-of-the-art environment located in Hatfield Business Park. It offers 17 undergraduate degree programmes, 21 postgraduate programmes and there are about 80 research students, mostly working at doctoral level. Business School staff are active in research in numerous areas, including complexity theory, institutional economics, economic modelling, efficiency measurement the creative industries, employment studies, finance, accounting, statistical methods and management science.The University of Hertfordshire has been recognised as the exemplar of a business-facing university. It is one of the region's largest employers with over 2,700 staff and a turnover of £205 m. In the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise it was given the highest rank for research quality among the post-1992 universities.-2 -

History matters: on the mystifying appeal of Bowles and Gintis

“…In effect, institutions partly constitute individuals9. Only one of the foregoing is consistent with Bowles' approach, and both variants of methodological individualism identified byHodgson (2007;2011). Gintis' call for the abandonment of methodological individualism presents the opportunity for less reductionist explanations, and hence the greater explanatory richness he seems to seek.…”

“…carrying one of a limited number of traits interact in either random or structured patterns over periods of time (for example, Bowles, 1998;Gintis, 2000, 2002A;2011. Tournaments may be constructed as simulations in which different behavioural strategies or traits play against one another in applications of games first worked out deductively.…”

Economic history into the perspective of economic thought and historiography: Between the Symplegade Manolis Manioudis

“…Generally, Marshall, despite having a general historical sense, which is highlighted by some historians of economic thought, such as Hodgson (2001;2009), but is rightly downgraded by others Milonakis and Fine (2009;2012), was instrumental in the process of the separation of economic history from economic theory. Marshall had, according to Ashley (1891), rehabilitated Ricardo's abstract economic epistemology.…”

Alfred Marshall: The Conception of ‘A Man of Flesh and Blood’

“…Marshall'a göre bu toplumsal alan bütünüyle biçimsizdir ve bu nedenle insanların eylemlerinin yığınlaşan birikimini, normalize bir bütüne, ölçülebilir eylemlere göre bu süreçteki asıl etken Batı dünyasında toplumun iktisadi yapısında meydana gelen ani değişimlerdir. Bu dönemde, Charles Darwin'in On The Origin of Spicies (Türlerin Kökeni) (1859) isimli kitabının yayımlanması da hedonist psikolojinin temellerini sarsan en güçlü etkenlerden birisidir ve iktisatçılar biyolojik incelemenin iktisadi sorunlar üzerinde etkisi olduğunu fark etmeye başlamışlardır (Mitchell, 1969: 88-89 Hodgson, 2005Hodgson, , 2011Hutchison, 1988;Raffaelli, 2003;Skidelsky, 1983.…”