Economic reason and political reason : deliberation and the construction of public space in the society of communication / / coordinated by Jean Mercier Ythier

• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd : , : John Wiley & Sons Inc, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 pages)
• Disciplina: 321.8
• Soggetto topico: Democracy - Philosophy; Economics - Philosophy; Political participation - Philosophy
• Persona (resp. second.): Mercier YthierJ (Jean)
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Normative Political Economy: Between Economic Reason and Political Reason -- Chapter 1. The "Difference Principle": Economic Rationality and Political Applicability -- 1.1. Introduction: equality norms and the "difference principle" in the public debate -- 1.1.1. Deliberation in public debate -- 1.1.2. The equality standard in evaluating inequalities -- 1.1.3. The singularity of the "difference principle" -- 1.2. Rationality: from philosophical objection to economic translation -- 1.2.1. The philosophical objection rather well overcome -- 1.2.2. An economic translation still under debate -- 1.3. Applicability: from political misunderstanding to societal complexity -- 1.3.1. The political misunderstanding to be cleared up -- 1.3.2. The societal complexity to be absorbed -- 1.4. Conclusion: a principle that is less philosophical than economic -- 1.5. References -- Chapter 2. The Public Sphere Between the State and the Market: From Rational Discussion to the Information and Communication Society -- 2.1. Publicity before and after Habermas -- 2.2. The public sphere between the State and the market -- 2.2.1. The origin of the concept in the public sphere -- 2.2.2. The public sphere and the systems of the State and the market -- 2.2.3. The development of the concept of the public sphere in Between Facts and Norms -- 2.2.4. The multiple dimensions of the public sphere -- 2.3. The public sphere and rational discussion -- 2.3.1. The rational discussion model -- 2.3.2. The political ideal put to the test of reality -- 2.3.3. The critique of reason and discourse -- 2.3.4. The critique of margin and class -- 2.4. The public sphere and the information and communication society -- 2.4.1. The challenges of the information and communication society. ; 2.4.2. The public sphere of the media -- 2.4.3. The public sphere in the age of the Internet and globalization -- 2.4.4. The public sphere of the information and communication society -- 2.5. The idea of the political sphere -- 2.5.1. Beyond procedural policy -- 2.5.2. A paradigm shift -- 2.5.3. From the public sphere to the political sphere -- 2.5.4. The political sphere between the State, the market and society -- 2.6. The dialectics of publicity -- 2.7. References -- Chapter 3. Contracts Rather than Deliberation: Robert Sugden's Normative Economics -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Sugden's public reasoning approach -- 3.3. The contractarian point of view: principles -- 3.4. The psychological stability of the market from a contractionary perspective -- 3.5. Discussion of the hypotheses -- 3.6. Making the market more moral -- 3.7. An assessment of the principle of mutual benefit -- 3.8. Conclusion -- 3.9. Acknowledgments -- 3.10. References -- Chapter 4. From a Hegelian to a Smithian Reading of Rawls -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Hegel and the reasonable/rational duo -- 4.3. The Smithian impartial spectator: a conceptual trio -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 4.5. References -- Part 2. Reasons and Persons -- Chapter 5. Personal Identity, Public Deliberation and Behavioral Public Policy -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Behavioral public policy and paternalism -- 5.3. Normative behavioral economics, welfare and identity -- 5.4. Personal identity and the plurality of conceptions of the good -- 5.5. Public deliberation and justification of behavioral public policies -- 5.6. Conclusion -- 5.7. Acknowledgments -- 5.8. References -- Chapter 6. Preferential Choice, Logical Action and Communication Ethics -- 6.1. Preferential choice and logical action -- 6.2. Practical choice: logical form and phenomenological substance of the preferential choice. ; 6.3. Preferential choice and the axioms of rational choice: logical analysis -- 6.4. Deliberate choice as rational preferential choice: logical reconstruction and evaluation -- 6.4.1. Robustness: reflexivity, binarity and acyclicity of the preference relation -- 6.4.2. Accuracy: completeness of the preference relation -- 6.4.3. Transparency: transitivity of the preference relation -- 6.5. A tentative conclusion on epistemology and ethics -- 6.6. Appendix -- 6.7. References -- Part 3. Public Debate and Public Policy -- Chapter 7. Issues of "Stakeholder" Recognition in Collaborative Deliberation -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Authority and recognition of contributions -- 7.2.1. Public and private -- 7.2.2. Reciprocal support of actors, recognition and collective initiative -- 7.2.3. Structure of action and structure of its environment -- 7.3. The organization's environment and stakeholders -- 7.3.1. Descriptive choices -- 7.3.2. Contributions of the "stakeholder" approach -- 7.3.3. Endogeneity, exogeneity and power in the commitments of an organization -- 7.4. Conclusion -- 7.5. References -- Chapter 8. Rethinking the Social Contract in the Digital Age -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Toward the questioning of the social contract -- 8.2.1. An economic model in question -- 8.2.2. Increasing inequality -- 8.2.3. The end of homo economicus? -- 8.2.4. Attention as a scarce resource -- 8.2.5. The principle of intensity and voluntary servitude -- 8.3. An explosive cocktail! -- 8.4. Re-founding the social contract -- 8.4.1. A look back at "liberating science" -- 8.4.2. Revisiting the human-machine relationship -- 8.4.3. Digital ontology and ethics -- 8.5. Individual responsibility and collective solidarity -- 8.6. Acknowledgments -- 8.7. References -- Chapter 9. Public Management of Rivers: The Deliberative Test -- 9.1. Introduction. ; 9.2. Voluntary consultations, between desires and fears of dialog -- 9.2.1. Gaining residents' acceptance of the projects -- 9.2.2. The moderators of the consultations: a regime of sharing rather than opinion -- 9.3. Contrasting memories and effects of the consultation -- 9.3.1. "We were listened to. We were able to talk" -- 9.3.2. A bitter memory of the consultation and unresolved management actions -- 9.4. Framing the consultation and developing scales -- 9.4.1. The status of expertise: determining or supporting the discussion -- 9.4.2. Normativity and scales of general interest in consultations -- 9.5. Conclusion -- 9.6. References -- Chapter 10. The Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services between Monetary Valuation and Deliberation -- 10.1. The economy at the service of nature conservation? -- 10.1.1. Is nature irreplaceable? -- 10.1.2. What is the cost of biodiversity erosion? -- 10.1.3. Continuing the debate on sustainability around ecosystem services -- 10.2. An overview of the controversy surrounding the economic value of nature -- 10.2.1. The standard economic approach and the issue of undervaluing nature in economic terms -- 10.2.2. The London School: environmental pragmatism -- 10.2.3. The conventionalist approach -- 10.2.4. Joan Martinez-Alier's ecological socioeconomics: valuation conflicts and incommensurability -- 10.2.5. A research approach: deliberative monetary evaluation -- 10.3. Conclusion -- 10.4. References -- List of Authors -- Index -- EULA.
• Titolo autorizzato: Economic Reason and Political Reason
• ISBN: 1-394-18816-1; 1-394-18814-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910678180003321
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