Jeremy Bentham and Gary Becker: Utilitarianism and Economic Imperialism

Hurtado, Jimena

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“…But that has never been Becker's way. From his graduate school study of discrimination to his current concerns with addiction and endogenous preferences [7,8], originality has been the hallmark of his work. Such an approach to research must result in some misses, but over four decades Becker has maintained a high batting average while hitting numerous home runs.…”

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Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker: Ideas About Facts

2018

Health Economics and Policy

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The American Economic Review published a note on multi-country trade written by an obscure Princeton undergraduate [1]. 1 Two months later a paper on monetary theory by the same student and one of his Princeton instructors appeared in Economica [2]. Thus was launched the career of one of the most influential social scientists of the second half of the twentieth century, a career that was recognized by the Nobel Prize Committee for Economics in 1992 with its award to Gary S. Becker. Although the Princeton undergraduate may have been obscure, his talents as an economist were already clearly evident to those who had close contact with him. One of his professors, in recommending him for admission to graduate school, said he was the best student at Princeton in more than a decade. Jacob Viner, a veteran of more than three decades of distinguished scholarship and teaching, wrote "Becker is the best student I have ever had." It is rumored that this recommendation raised some eyebrows at the University of Chicago, where Viner had been a leading member of the faculty during the period when Milton Friedman and George Stigler were graduate students. An academic diplomat is said to have restored equilibrium by pointing out that Viner probably meant "undergraduate student." Milton Friedman was quick to add his own favorable assessment. In 1953, when he nominated Becker for an Earhart Foundation graduate fellowship at Chicago, he wrote, "Becker has a brilliant, analytical mind; great originality;

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Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker: Ideas About Facts

2018

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“…This particular concept of rationality, represented by a scantily defined mathematical function, is invoked to explain the behaviour of persons and organizations in nearly every context. This self-interest perspective existed before Smith’s texts on utilitarian philosophy, as developed by Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill (Hurtado, 2008). However, Smith’s change of meaning to the word capital has had a vast impact upon the social sciences (Hodgson, 2014).…”

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A Law for the Social Sciences Regarding Us Human Beings

Cardao-Pito

2016

Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics

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This article proposes a feasible law for the social sciences asserting that we human beings are not commodities, assets, capital or resources. Mainstream economics and Marxism describe human participation in economic and societal production through a human-commodity framework. Intangible flow theory aims to replace that framework and interrelated conjectures as human capital, human assets and human resources. This theory is not exclusively applicable to capitalist/market organization forms. It suggests that (a) commodities are physical goods, and exhibit known characteristics differentiating them from human-related flows as service or knowledge flows; (b) human work has properties that make it akin to quasi-service production; (c) humans are not commodities, capital, assets or resources; (d) machines can obtain the skills necessary to replace human work or perform novel tasks when previously intangible dimensions are turned tangible (tangibilization); and (e) cash-flows generated or saved by those machines tend to flow to human beings who own or control them. According to this theory, greater attention must be paid to flows of economic material elements that display a relevant degree of empirical precision (e.g., cash and physical goods flows). JEL: A1, B1, B2, B4, B5

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“…En creux, se détache l'idée que c'est d'abord à cause des choix individuels en terme d'investissement en « capital humain » et de la situation spécifique des femmes ("nouvelle économie de la famille") qu'il existe des différentiels de salaires sur le marché du travail. Ces travaux sont ceux sur lesquels la plupart de auteurs s'appuient pour parler de l'impérialisme de Becker (Fine, 2000 ;Hurtado, 2008). Une partie de l'introduction de la seconde édition de The Economics of Discrimination est consacrée à la nécessité de relier l'analyse de la discrimination aux développements de la théorie du « capital humain ».…”

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L’économie des discriminations : conquête impérialiste ou contribution à la théorie des prix?

Chassonnery-Zaïgouche¹

2013

OEconomia

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Jeremy Bentham and Gary Becker: Utilitarianism and Economic Imperialism

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker: Ideas About Facts

Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker: Ideas About Facts

A Law for the Social Sciences Regarding Us Human Beings

L’économie des discriminations : conquête impérialiste ou contribution à la théorie des prix?

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