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Economic Ideologies

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Economic ideologies are systematic frameworks of beliefs and values that guide the organization, management, and distribution of economic resources within a society. They encompass various theories and principles regarding capitalism, socialism, communism, and other economic systems, influencing policy decisions and societal structures.
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Economic ideologies are systematic frameworks of beliefs and values that guide the organization, management, and distribution of economic resources within a society. They encompass various theories and principles regarding capitalism, socialism, communism, and other economic systems, influencing policy decisions and societal structures.

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1. How do cognitive and cultural factors shape popular economic ideologies despite conflicts with formal economic theory?

This research area investigates the emergence and persistence of 'folk-economic beliefs'—explicit economic notions held by laypeople outside formal economic training—and how these beliefs influence political attitudes and policy preferences. It challenges the dominant view that such beliefs stem primarily from ignorance or bias, proposing instead that evolved cognitive mechanisms and culturally transmitted mental models systematically shape the contents of popular economic ideologies.

Key finding: Boyer & Petersen (2017) develop a theoretical model positing that folk-economic beliefs arise from evolved inference-systems adapted to ancestral social and economic environments, such as reciprocity and suspicion of... Read more

2. What are the philosophical and methodological critiques of mainstream economic naturalism and their implications for economic ideologies?

This theme explores critical perspectives on mainstream economics' ontological assumptions, particularly critiques of its naturalistic and value-free claims. It examines alternative frameworks inspired by pragmatism, institutionalism, and constructivism, which emphasize the human-dependent constitution of economic reality, the inseparability of normative and descriptive aspects, and the socially embedded nature of economic phenomena. These critiques question the ideological underpinnings of treating markets and capitalism as quasi-natural phenomena and advocate for more contextually grounded, interpretive approaches.

Key finding: The author argues that mainstream economics erroneously naturalizes economic phenomena by treating markets and capitalism as ontologically independent from human purposes, adopting means-ends dualism and value-free... Read more
Key finding: Kaul critiques the presumed universality and objectivity of economics, describing it as a historically contingent socially constructed discipline that excludes questions of identity, difference, and normative values. The work... Read more
Key finding: This paper diagnoses the decline of history of economic thought in mainstream economics education as a consequence of positivist philosophy, curriculum constraints, and disciplinary preferences for mathematical rigor. Yet it... Read more

3. How do political ideologies shape and integrate economic ideas within broader social and cultural contexts?

This theme examines the interaction and mutual constitution of economic ideas and political ideologies, including how economic doctrines are articulated within particular political and cultural narratives. It investigates ideologies ranging from socialism in practice (e.g., Cuban socialism), to dominant globalist political ideologies, to critiques of economic fundamentalism, and considers how ideological formations embed economic thought within identities, institutions, and power relations.

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Key finding: Challenging prior skepticism, Steger contends that 'globalism' constitutes a coherent and dominant contemporary political ideology integrating elements of neoliberalism, nationalism, and new concepts into a hybrid structure.... Read more
Key finding: This work traces the rise and consolidation of economic fundamentalism as an ideological force that permeates social institutions, law, media, education, and culture, exerting comprehensive influence over economic discourse... Read more

All papers in Economic Ideologies

Número original: 2408. “Prefácio: Economia e Ideologia”, Brasília, 13 julho 2012, 8 p. Apresentação ao livro de André Nunes: Economia e Ideologia: Notas de aula de um curso de introdução à Economia Política (Curitiba: Editora CRV, 2012,... more
Questo contributo propone un'analisi critica e personale del capolavoro di Karl Polanyi, La grande trasformazione, mettendo in evidenza le profonde connessioni tra crisi economiche, ideologie autoritarie e il concetto di libertà.... more
Since Cuba's civil society is a socialist civil society, it can only be understood in that context.  This paper argues that Cuban civil society can be understood through the ideas on civil society found in the works of Antonio Gramsci
Examines the relationship between popular education and civil society in Cuba.  Highlights the role of the Centro Memorial Martin Luther King Jr. in Havana in the development of both
Brett Neilson és Ned Rossiter szerint a prekaritásnak mint tudományos elemzési kategóriának a megjelenése egybeesik társadalmi cselekvésre ösztönző politikai fogalomként való használatának visszaesésével. Azonban ez nem jelenti azt, hogy... more
Das in den vergangenen Jahren schon intensiv erforschte Feld der Konser-vativen Revolution in der Weimarer Republik und darüber hinaus 1 wird in dieser Chemnitzer Dissertation 2 durch eine Analyse der Vorstellungen im Bereich des... more
Si mund të arrijmë lirinë ekonomike? Sipas autores së njohur, themeluese e rrymës së objektivizmit dhe mbështetëse e frymës liberale Ayn Rand: " Liria intelektuale nuk mund të ekzistojë pa lirinë politike, liria politike nuk mund të... more
The present paper investigates how the Bridge Budapest, a CSR organization founded by leading Hungarian IT startups, attempts to shape the values of Hungarian society towards capitalism in general, and towards entrepreneurship in... more
Kutatásomban arra keresem a választ, hogyan próbálják vezető magyar startupok a társadalom kapitalizmushoz, illetve vállalkozáshoz kapcsolódó attitűdjeit formálni az általuk alapított Bridge Budapest Egyesületen keresztül. A Bridge... more
The new designs for the US Paper Money between 1914 and 1918: Federal Reserve Notes and Federal Reserve Bank Notes during the Word War I. Contents: BEFORE THE FED, THE FED, THE NEW NOTES, 12 BANK SEALS, THE NEW TRADITION, 2 TREASURY... more
Garland, C. (2014) ‘As Barriers Fall, Contingency Becomes Possibility: Protest Resisting and Escaping Containment and Categorization’, Part II Identity, Embodiment and Categorisation in Eds. Lamond, I. and Spracklen, K. 'Protests as... more
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate, largely in abstracto, the epistemic stance of the group of knowledge producers commonly—if imprecisely—known as the Hungarian reform economists. These thinkers won international acclaim... more
Published on Britannica.Com Humanities Web Site (May 2000); revised version in The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto & Other Writings (Baton Rouge: Exquisite Corpse Books, 2003).
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