Browsing by Autor "Jimena Hurtado"

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Amenazas y ventajas de la enseñanza de la Historia del Pensamiento Económico hoy
(Universidad de Antioquia, 2011) Andrés Álvarez Gallo; Jimena Hurtado
 En este artículo buscamos responder a los diferentes argumentos contrarios a la historia del pensamiento económico, como área de investigación y de enseñanza, para mostrar la vigencia y relevancia del área en la formación de los futuros economistas. En momentos en que la Economía es cuestionada por su incapacidad de ofrecer soluciones y por su fascinación con la medición y la técnica, nos parece pertinente rescatar la historia del pensamiento económico como campo de reflexión, de crítica y de introspección. Así, los nuevos economistas entenderán que la Economía es un proceso y no un producto y podrán participar activamente en el presente extendido de su disciplina.
Believing, Belonging and Understanding: Religion and Philosophy as Narratives and Practice in Adam Smith
(2023) Jimena Hurtado
Abstract Religion and philosophy satisfy the basic human needs of understanding, belonging, and finding meaning. They provide tranquility of mind and satisfy the desire to be loved and lovable. However, they present their own failings and can counter each other in positive and negative ways, that threaten the communities of beliefs they form and their interactions. An appropriate institutional framework can control the fanaticism and sectarianism that can come with established religion and philosophy.
Belleza, tecnoestética y patrones de consumo: otra mirada a la Revolución Industrial
(2024) Jimena Hurtado; Andrés Felipe Candelo Álvarez
Adam Smith nos permite analizar la Revolución Industrial no solo como una transformación de la producción gracias a la tecnología, sino también como un fenómeno de consumo. El gusto por la belleza o la necesidad estética, uno de los principios de la mente humana, nos permite entender la sofisticación en los patrones de consumo, el auge de la tecnoestética y el surgimiento de la economía del artificio. En tiempos de cambio tecnológico permanente, Smith nos abre esta perspectiva que cobra toda su actualidad al considerar el lugar central de la estética y el consumo en las modas y los cambios profundos en la estructura productiva.
Bernard Mandeville: Wealth beyond Vice and Virtue
(University of Brasília, 2022) Jimena Hurtado
Bernard Mandeville denounced the moral philosophy of his times, its theoretical and practical dimensions, as elitist and contrary to human nature. The explanations and recommendations derived from this moral philosophy, according to Mandeville, was inadequate to understand and govern commercial society. Mandeville scrutinized existing explanations about human nature, confronted them with what he presented as facts and unraveled their contradictions. This leads to Mandeville’s challenge: accepting things as they are or assuming the responsibility of transformation. This is the challenge I aim at exploring in this paper. We can continue to live in a highly unequal society based upon pride and shame or we can create incentives that will lead to a different calculation of passions in line with a Utilitarian criterion.
Ezequiel Rojas: entre utilitarismo e ideología
(Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, 2015) Jimena Hurtado
La economía política jugó un papel importante en la construcción de la nueva República de Colombia en cabeza de Ezequiel Rojas. En busca de elementos teóricos y prácticos para organizar una nueva sociedad de individuos libres y destinados a la felicidad, Rojas buscó en la economía política inspiración. Sin embargo, no era la economía política clásica la que Rojas difundía en sus enseñanzas. Rojas construyó su propia propuesta a partir de tradiciones e influencias menos usuales: el utilitarismo y la ideología. En este texto pretendo reconstruir esa propuesta, mostrando sus tensiones y contradicciones y la manera como Rojas intentó conciliarse recurriendo a la religión.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU AND KARL MARX: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO CRITICS TO THE MARKET ECONOMY
(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2008) Andrés Álvarez; Jimena Hurtado
We present a comparison between the works of two great critics of the market economy: Rousseau and Marx. It shows their similarities and divergences, most important of which is the place they give to economic analysis in their intellectual and political theories. Whereas Marx built his political and scientific criticism on economic analysis, Rousseau believed this analysis could not be the starting point for understanding social organization. Their monetary theories can explain this difference.
Jon Elster, Alexis de Tocqueville. The First Social Scientist
(Association Œconomia, 2011) Jimena Hurtado
Will we ever speak about Elster’s Tocqueville as we are used to speak about Skidelsky’s Keynes, Winch’s Smith, Hollander’s Ricardo or … Elster’s Marx? Following his lifelong research, Jon Elster presents in this book the political and social thinker that he regards not only as his predecessor, but also, as the title of the book indicates, as the first social scientist: Alexis de Tocqueville. Elster recognizes how contestable this claim of being the first, and particularly, the first social sc...
Lauchlin Currie and Albert O. Hirschman on Development as a Problem of Decision Making
(Association Œconomia, 2019) Andrés Álvarez; Andrés M. Guiot-Isaac; Jimena Hurtado
This paper analyzes L. Currie and A. O. Hirschman’s contributions to development economics in the context of their Colombian experience as foreign experts. We show that the common ideas about the divergences between these authors have overlooked the view they shared of the experts’ role as a triggering factor in development strategy. They both believed experts should facilitate and guide the decision-making process. Using published and archival sources, we show that their experiences as experts in Colombia led them to redefine their ideas and understand the influence of the political economy of development policies on the advice that experts give.
“Out of sight, out of mind”: Social interactions and Smith's asymmetrical sympathy
(Complutense University of Madrid, 2015) Andrés Álvarez; Jimena Hurtado
Growing literature on Adam Smith’s system of sympathy has recovered an enriching view on our understanding of human interactions. Much attention has been placed on the construction of moral and social communities, the process of identification and recognition that Smith presents. But, the features Smith attributes to the intersubjective identifi-cation mechanism of sympathy can also lead to conceive of the possibility of exclusion of some members of a com-munity. The asymmetry of sympathy allows explaining emulation of those seen as more fortunate as well as the exclusion of those perceived as miserable. Through a formal representation we try to illustrate the phenomena of inclusion and exclusion present in intersubjective relations and the construction of communities.
'Out of Sight, Out of Mind': Modern Economics, Social Interactions, and Smith’s Sympathy
(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2012) Andrés Álvarez; Jimena Hurtado
Políticas públicas y acción colectiva: el legado de Albert O. Hirschman en tiempos de pandemia
(2020) Jimena Hurtado
Albert O. Hirschman invites us to take risks and assume possibilism as a way to social change. In this text, I explore this invitation coming from a self-subversive public intellectual, who built his point of view from the practical and theoretical lessons of the past to contribute to the public debate needed to face challenges and opportunities. Collective action is possible when citizens exercise their voice and embrace their responsibility to find temporal arrangements to solve distributive problems without renouncing to their differences, their own beliefs and expectations. The pandemic has brought to the light a standing problem in the region: inequality. We need collective action to overcome the apparent trade-off between health and economics in order to recover our right to decide and live lives worth living.
Ricardo F. Crespo, A Re-Asssessment of Aristotle’s Economic Thought (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. xx + 145, $115.56. ISBN 978-0-415-82057-8 (hardcover); 978-1-315-88351-9 (ebook).
(Cambridge University Press, 2015) Jimena Hurtado
Ricardo F. Crespo, A Re-Asssessment of Aristotle’s Economic Thought (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. xx + 145, $115.56. ISBN 978-0-415-82057-8 (hardcover); 978-1-315-88351-9 (ebook). - Volume 37 Issue 4
SOBRE "EL SUJETO ECONÓMICO Y LA RACIONALIDAD EN ADAM SMITH": CONFUSIONES Y LUGARES COMUNES
(LA Referencia, 2010) Jimena Hurtado; Santiago Mesa
Sociability, grapes, and the rule of law: on Robin Douglass’s <i>Mandeville’s Fable</i>
(Routledge, 2024) Jimena Hurtado
THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY AT 50: INTRODUCTION
(Cambridge University Press, 2024) Pedro Garcia Duarte; Jimena Hurtado
As we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the History of Economics Society (HES), this issue of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought marks a significant milestone. The journal, as the official publication of the society, seeks to participate in commemorating this important occasion and acknowledging the society’s substantial contributions to the scholarly community over the past five decades. The society’s efforts have not only advanced research in the history of economic thought but have also fostered a vibrant intellectual community of historians and economists.
The Quarrel of Development Experts: Lauchlin Currie and Albert O. Hirschman in Colombia
(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2017) Andrés Álvarez; Andres Guiot; Jimena Hurtado
Understanding diversity (or the lack thereof) in the economics profession in Latin America
(Elsevier BV, 2021) Jimena Hurtado; Erich Pinzón-Fuchs
Why Teach History of Economic Thought Today?
(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2010) Andrés Álvarez; Jimena Hurtado