Manuel Ramon Souza Luz

A Gênese do Indivíduo e o Indivíduo da Gênese: Uma Abordagem Multidisciplinar Acerca do Papel da Ideologia Cristã nas Origens do Homem (Econômico)

O presente artigo procura contribuir a discussao acerca das origens da concepcao de homem economico. A partir de uma abordagem antropologica, que nao deixa de ser historica e filosofica, o trabalho recua temporalmente aos primordios do cristianismo para verificar a emergencia da ideia de individuo, definido como um ser substancialmente a-historico, a-social, autonomo e independente. O artigo demonstra que ocorreu, durante a emergencia e hegemonia da doutrina crista, um processo de terrenizacao de uma ideia especifica de individuo, que em tempos preteritos somente estava associado a Deus e que, a partir de certo momento da historia ocidental, passou a imperar, tambem, nas relacoes entre os homens, servindo de alicerce a concepcao de homem economico.

Are We Forgetting Something? Remarks on the Connections Between Douglass North’s Contributions and Original Institutional Economics

Abstract: Douglass North’s latest works have become central to the current discussion regarding the differences and similarities between new institutional economics (NIE) and original institutional economics (OIE). We seek to contribute to this debate by offering a specific analytical perspective to evaluating North’s contributions. After defining a set of philosophical and methodological principles that specifies OIE, we endeavor to verify if and how North’s work relates to these foundations. We believe that this methodological perspective brings to light a fundamental issue not stressed by earlier analyses: the profound difference between the institutionalisms regarding the role of market order as a mechanism of human sociability.

Alfred Marshall e as "evoluções" vitorianas: situando Darwin e Spencer nos fundamentos teóricos do pensamento marshalliano

Starting from a comparative study of the theoretical views of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer on the processes of change, this paper seeks to understand how the genesis of these ideas about evolution influenced the economic thought of Alfred Marshall. In this sense, we first present how Darwin and Spencer built completely different and irreconcilable approaches to understanding the phenomena of change in complex systems. Subsequently, we try to understand how Marshall absorbed these Victorians elaborations about evolution within his own theoretical construct. Thus, focusing our investigation on Principles (1890) and working with the ideas contained therein about change, progress, equilibrium and representative firm, we seek to show that Marshall followed a code of science characteristically Spencerian, where his approach, often interpreted as “evolutionary,” presents no contradiction or incompatibility with a perspective based on neoclassical essentialism.