Theorizing the "Third Sphere": A Critique of the Persistence of the "Economistic Fallacy"

Adaman, Fikret; Madra, Yahya M.

doi:10.1080/00213624.2002.11506535

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“…Trade unions have been described from a philosophical point of view as part of the "ideological state apparatus" (Althusser, 1977), from an economic point of view as "third sector" organisations (Adaman and Yahya, 2002;Chasse 1995;Valentinov, 2008), from a political perspective as one of the three "social partners" (with governments and business) (Taylor and Mathers, 2002;Pochet, 2002;Ferner and Hyman, 1998) or as social movements (Gajewska, 2008). In our view, unions can embody any or all of the functions implied in such definitions, depending upon time and place.…”

Section: Jobs Vs Environment -Discourses Challenging the Dilemmamentioning

confidence: 99%

Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

Räthzel

Uzzell

2011

Global Environmental Change

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Section: Jobs Vs Environment -Discourses Challenging the Dilemmamentioning

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Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

Räthzel

Uzzell

2011

Global Environmental Change

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“…El Tercer Sector, por descarte, incluye todo cuanto no halla cobijo en los dos primeros: actividades voluntarias/caritativas/filantrópicas sin ánimo de lucro con una finalidad de atención/ayuda/capacitación de sectores sociales que presentan carencias materiales/ambientales/culturales (Sajardo Moreno y Chaves, 2006). Su existencia se explicaría por la presencia de fallos en la afectación de recursos por parte del mercado o en su redistribución por parte del Estado (Adaman y Madra, 2002;Sajardo Moreno y Chaves, 2006, p. 99-100). En lo que toca al Estado, su oferta de bienes/ servicios públicos se orienta en función de las preferencias del votante/elector mediano.…”

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La Economía Social y Solidaria en el contexto de las políticas de austeridad

Haro¹

2015

RILESS-OE

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Resumen. El objetivo del artículo es analizar la visión que, en Portugal, transmite el poder político sobre la Economía Social y Solidaria. Esta visión se considera indisociable de un contexto general de crisis y del sentido otorgado a las políticas públicas impulsadas por el gobierno de la coalición PSD-CDS en su ejecución de un programa general de ajuste económico-financiero. En función del objetivo definido, el artículo examina críticamente el Programa de Emergencia Social y su presentación pública a cargo del Ministro de Solidaridad y Seguridad Social, el Programa del XIX Gobierno Constitucional de la República Portuguesa, la Carta Común de Balance y Compromiso entre el Gobierno Portugués y el Sector de la Economía Social y efectúa una reflexión general acerca de la promoción del emprendedurismo como una suerte de política pública. A través de ese análisis se constata que la visión de la Economía Social se encuadra en una concepción de la misma como paliativa frente a los fallos del mercado y las carencias del Estado. En el caso de la Economía Solidaria, se asocia a una concepción penalizador-correctora de la informalidad y a un discurso hegemónico sobre el emprendedurismo.Palabras clave: Economía Social, Economía Solidaria, Economía Informal, emprendedurismo, austeridad.Abstract. The aim of this paper is to analyze how he Social and Solidarity Economy is perceived in a context of restrictions and economic adjustments imposed by the Financial Assistance Program in Portugal. The approaches on Social and Solidarity Economy are narrowly linked to the public policies developed by the coalition government of PSD-CDS in order to face the social consequences of the financial and economic crisis. In accordance with its goal, this paper proposes a critical analysis focused on a) the Emergency Social Program and its public presentation by the Ministry of Solidarity and Social Security; b) the Government Program elaborated by the 19 th Constitutional Government; c) the Common Agreement and Commitment between the Portuguese government and the Social Economy Sector; and d) the hegemonic discourse on entrepreneurship. This analysis shows, on the one hand, how the Social Economy is seen as a palliative for market and state failures and, on the other hand, how the Solidarity Economy is limited by a punishingcorrective view on the informal economy and a dominant discourse focused on the virtues derived from an entrepreneurial attitude.Keywords: Social Economy, Solidarity Economy, Informal Economy, entrepreneurship, austerity.Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0), sendo permitidas reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados.

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“…The neoclassical approach fails to see this because in most models when the issue of a variety of behavioural traits is discussed at all 'the subject is theorized as inserted into, rather than shaped by, the context in which he or she is situated' (Adaman andMadra, 2002, p.1054). The question of how to decide whether to act as homo economicus, homo reciprocans or homo altruist is never posed because it would challenge some of the most basic methodological tenets of neoclassical economics (ibid.…”

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“…Moreover because a given theoretical framework 13 See Hirschman (1985), Sawyer (1992), Anderson (1993), Hausman and McPherson (1996) and Tsakalotos (2001b). 14 'To postulate a sovereign, purposeful, and pre-constituted individual is to imply that the ontology of contracts is the normal state of the economy' (Adaman andMadra, 2002, p.1053). 15 See Benton (1982, p.466). restricts the dimension of variation in respect to values '..certain goods can be accepted as such without further argument, whereas other rival ones cannot be adopted without adducing over-riding considerations.…”

Section: Thesis One: the Centrality Of Values To Economic Theorymentioning

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“…Notice also that common to much of this work is the idea that institutions and associations that may have this beneficial effect on economic performance were not necessarily created, and are not necessarily sustained, because they have such effects, something explored in the previous thesis. As Adaman andMadra (2002, p.1049) argue '[i]n order to make sense of the variety of economic activities constituting contemporary societies, we need to construct a framework that will be sensitive to the multiple ways in which the economic subject is formed and shaped in distinct institutional and cultural settings'.…”

Section: Thesis Three: Values Are Endogenous To Institutions 23mentioning

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Homo economicus and the reconstruction of political economy: six theses on the role of values in economics

Tsakalotos

2005

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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The argument of this paper is that a revitalised political economy in the future must become more interdisciplinary. In particular it argues for a more explicit engagement of political economy with values, and presents a number of critiques of the ethical limitations of both markets and neoclassical economics. Because of the commitment to the ideal of the market, neoclassical theory is unlikely to be able to take on board this critique since it challenges the most important building block of the theory, namely homo economicus. But this is not the case for political economy in the tradition of post-keynesianism, marxism and institutionalism. The reason why political economy has not exploited this advantage to any great extent has to do with the fear of many political economists that an engagement with values necessarily diminishes the scientific status of their approach. The paper presents six theses in order to convince that this fear is fundamentally misconceived.

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Theorizing the "Third Sphere": A Critique of the Persistence of the "Economistic Fallacy"

Cited by 42 publications

References 55 publications

Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma

La Economía Social y Solidaria en el contexto de las políticas de austeridad

Homo economicus and the reconstruction of political economy: six theses on the role of values in economics

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