Stephen Pratten
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 363753 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen Pratten |
| NOMBRES | Stephen |
| APELLIDO | Pratten |
| FIRMA | PRATTEN S |
| AFILIACIONES | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6027-7528 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Money and Its Body in the Social Positioning and Credit Perspectives
A new and distinctive version of the credit theory of money is advanced by Samuel A. Chambers in his book Money Has No Value. The account of money sponsored by social positioning theory is an alternative perspective against which Chambers’ new credit theory can be productively compared. This review article draws out the differences between these competing theories of the nature of money. An examination of Chambers’ brief, largely dismissive, rema…
The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory
The term function currently features prominently in outlines of social positioning theory but a sustained account of the view of function informing social positioning theory has yet to be supplied. In the absence of a fuller articulation of the theory's underlying view of function confusion and misinterpretation are likely to be encouraged especially among those committed to one or other of the numerous alternative accounts of function available.…
Veblen, Marshall and neoclassical economics
Alfred Marshall is often depicted as a pioneer of neoclassical economics almost as if this is a label he embraces and promotes. Yet neoclassical economics is not a category Marshall deploys but a term Thorstein Veblen introduces in characterising Marshall. Veblen coins the term neoclassical to identify an ontological discrepancy in the work of a specific group of his contemporaries, a prominent figure among whom is Marshall. Veblen's view is that…
Social positioning theory and Dewey’s ontology of persons, objects and offices
Social positioning theory, in defending a general social ontology, is a particular extension of critical realism. It is a theory of social constitution that clarifies how items including human beings and things are relationally organized as instances of community components. This extension of critical realism is directly comparable to fundamental but underexamined contributions of the classical American pragmatist John Dewey and specifically his …
Social positioning and Commons’s monetary theorising
The argument of this paper is that the neglect of John Commons’s monetary theorising is in large part due to his contributions being insufficiently situated in his broader framework of analysis where community rights and duties are emphasised as essential features of social reality. It is further argued that the sophistication and significance of Commons’s account of money can be appreciated once it is recognised as a variant of the recently deve…
Dewey on Organisation
In some of his later contributions Dewey places particular emphasis on the category of organisation. Organisation features prominently both in his later metaphysical writings and in some of his more substantively focussed contributions. Organisation is also a central category for two contemporary ontological projects, namely Tony Lawson’s perspective on social ontology and the interactivist framework developed by Mark Bickhard and his collaborato…
Cambridge Social Ontology
Social ontology—the study of the nature and basic structure of the social realm—is currently enjoying a period of sustained growth and development, both as a field of study in its own right and as a project concerned with under-labouring for a variety of different social scientific disciplines including economics. One of the most active streams in this area emanates from Cambridge and a group of researchers operating at the interface between soci…
Trust and the social positioning process
When setting out, defending and exploring the implications of his specific position in social ontology Tony Lawson highlights the importance of trust. Despite the significance he attaches to trust Lawson does not provide an extended elaboration of the nature of trust but rather considers it in various contexts where his primary focus lies elsewhere. The purpose of the current paper is to examine how trust features in Lawson’s discussions. I ident…
Social Ontology and Modern Economics
Critical Realism and the Process Account of Emergence
For advocates of critical realism emergence is a central theme. Critical realists typically ground their defence of the relative disciplinary autonomy of various sciences by arguing that emergent phenomena exist in a robust non‐ontologically, non‐causally reductionist sense. Despite the importance they attach to it critical realists have only recently begun to elaborate on emergence at length and systematically compare their own account with thos…
Community, Rights and the Self
Ce document examine les liens entre la manière de rendre compte de la réalité sociale esquissée par George Herbert Mead et développée par Beth Singer et la contrepartie que l’on trouve chez les promoteurs du réalisme critique. Que ce soit principalement dans l’optique d’une défense de la pertinence des contributions de Mead ou dans la perspective d’un raffinement de l’ontologie sociale associée au réalisme critique, les auteurs qui ont déjà compa…
Essentialism and the Social
In this paper I show that two senses are often assigned to essences in frameworks that award them a significant ontological status. There is both a defining sense and a more concrete-explanatory sense. Once this distinction is recognized, competing forms of essentialism can be differentiated and their implications more easily explored. As an example of work where the defining and the concrete-explanatory senses of essence are tied closely togethe…
Critical Realism and Causality
Rom Harré's generative account of causality has been drawn on heavily by advocates of critical realism. Yet Harré argues that critical realists often exaggerate the extent to which powerful causal explanations of social phenomena can be developed. Certain proponents of critical realism have responded to Harré's criticisms by suggesting that it is useful to consider the relevant issues in relation to the familiar Aristotelian classification of fou…
The Evolving Rationality of Rational Expectations
Quasi Markets, Transaction Costs, and Trust
Competitiveness policy and economic organization
Journal Article Competitiveness policy and economic organization: the case of the British film industry Get access Stephen Pratten, Stephen Pratten Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Simon Deakin Simon Deakin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 41, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 217–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/41.2.217 Published: 01 July 2000
Reinventing the Market? Competition and Regulatory Change in Broadcasting
The reforms instituted by the Broadcasting Act 1990 led to a period of turbulence and upheaval within broadcasting with results that were at best unintended and, at worst, seriously undermined the ideal of public service broadcasting. A Hayekian economic perspective would suggest that the reforms failed because they did not go far enough in the direction of full ? marketization? . The paper develops an alternative perspective, based on an adaptat…
Needs and wants
In this article I identify two broad perspectives on broadcasting policy, each deploying very different assumptions regarding the role of policy in facilitating human well-being. I argue that in increasingly influential wants-based position draws upon an impoverished social ontology which is unable to sustain the distinction between wants and underlying needs. I also argue that the previously dominant beyond-wants perspective failed to elaborate …
Marshall on Tendencies, Equilibrium, and the Statical Method
Research Article| March 01 1998 Marshall on Tendencies, Equilibrium, and the Statical Method Stephen Pratten Stephen Pratten 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (1): 121–163. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-30-1-121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Pratten; Marshall on Tendencies, Equilibrium, and the Statical …
The “Closure” Assumption as a First Step
In this paper I accept that just as mainstream economics can be characterized by its insistence upon a deductivist method, so the least contentious, most widely accepted aspects of Post-Keynesianism can be accounted for by its anti-deductivist stance and more specifically by its tacit commitment to something like critical realism. I argue that neo- Ricardian economics, to the extent that it takes closure for granted as a natural and useful starti…
Structure, agency and Marx's analysis of the labour process ∗
From the persepective of the transcendental realist account of science and critical realist elaboration of the relationship between human agency and social structure, this paper examines the methodological approach Marx adopts in his analysis of the labour process. The agency-structure relation as detailed by critical realism is set out and placed in the context of wider debates surrounding the notion of structure. In particular the transcendenta…
Trust and the social positioning process
When setting out, defending and exploring the implications of his specific position in social ontology Tony Lawson highlights the importance of trust. Despite the significance he attaches to trust Lawson does not provide an extended elaboration of the nature of trust but rather considers it in various contexts where his primary focus lies elsewhere. The purpose of the current paper is to examine how trust features in Lawson’s discussions. I ident…
Critical Realism and the Process Account of Emergence
For advocates of critical realism emergence is a central theme. Critical realists typically ground their defence of the relative disciplinary autonomy of various sciences by arguing that emergent phenomena exist in a robust non‐ontologically, non‐causally reductionist sense. Despite the importance they attach to it critical realists have only recently begun to elaborate on emergence at length and systematically compare their own account with thos…
Structure, agency and Marx's analysis of the labour process ∗
From the persepective of the transcendental realist account of science and critical realist elaboration of the relationship between human agency and social structure, this paper examines the methodological approach Marx adopts in his analysis of the labour process. The agency-structure relation as detailed by critical realism is set out and placed in the context of wider debates surrounding the notion of structure. In particular the transcendenta…
Social positioning theory and Dewey’s ontology of persons, objects and offices
Social positioning theory, in defending a general social ontology, is a particular extension of critical realism. It is a theory of social constitution that clarifies how items including human beings and things are relationally organized as instances of community components. This extension of critical realism is directly comparable to fundamental but underexamined contributions of the classical American pragmatist John Dewey and specifically his …
Cambridge Social Ontology
Social ontology—the study of the nature and basic structure of the social realm—is currently enjoying a period of sustained growth and development, both as a field of study in its own right and as a project concerned with under-labouring for a variety of different social scientific disciplines including economics. One of the most active streams in this area emanates from Cambridge and a group of researchers operating at the interface between soci…
Critical Realism and Causality
Rom Harré's generative account of causality has been drawn on heavily by advocates of critical realism. Yet Harré argues that critical realists often exaggerate the extent to which powerful causal explanations of social phenomena can be developed. Certain proponents of critical realism have responded to Harré's criticisms by suggesting that it is useful to consider the relevant issues in relation to the familiar Aristotelian classification of fou…
Marshall on Tendencies, Equilibrium, and the Statical Method
Research Article| March 01 1998 Marshall on Tendencies, Equilibrium, and the Statical Method Stephen Pratten Stephen Pratten 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (1): 121–163. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-30-1-121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Pratten; Marshall on Tendencies, Equilibrium, and the Statical …
Quasi Markets, Transaction Costs, and Trust
The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory
The term function currently features prominently in outlines of social positioning theory but a sustained account of the view of function informing social positioning theory has yet to be supplied. In the absence of a fuller articulation of the theory's underlying view of function confusion and misinterpretation are likely to be encouraged especially among those committed to one or other of the numerous alternative accounts of function available.…
Community, Rights and the Self
Ce document examine les liens entre la manière de rendre compte de la réalité sociale esquissée par George Herbert Mead et développée par Beth Singer et la contrepartie que l’on trouve chez les promoteurs du réalisme critique. Que ce soit principalement dans l’optique d’une défense de la pertinence des contributions de Mead ou dans la perspective d’un raffinement de l’ontologie sociale associée au réalisme critique, les auteurs qui ont déjà compa…
Competitiveness policy and economic organization
Journal Article Competitiveness policy and economic organization: the case of the British film industry Get access Stephen Pratten, Stephen Pratten Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Simon Deakin Simon Deakin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 41, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 217–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/41.2.217 Published: 01 July 2000
Veblen, Marshall and neoclassical economics
Alfred Marshall is often depicted as a pioneer of neoclassical economics almost as if this is a label he embraces and promotes. Yet neoclassical economics is not a category Marshall deploys but a term Thorstein Veblen introduces in characterising Marshall. Veblen coins the term neoclassical to identify an ontological discrepancy in the work of a specific group of his contemporaries, a prominent figure among whom is Marshall. Veblen's view is that…
The “Closure” Assumption as a First Step
In this paper I accept that just as mainstream economics can be characterized by its insistence upon a deductivist method, so the least contentious, most widely accepted aspects of Post-Keynesianism can be accounted for by its anti-deductivist stance and more specifically by its tacit commitment to something like critical realism. I argue that neo- Ricardian economics, to the extent that it takes closure for granted as a natural and useful starti…
Structure, agency and Marx's analysis of the labour process ∗
From the persepective of the transcendental realist account of science and critical realist elaboration of the relationship between human agency and social structure, this paper examines the methodological approach Marx adopts in his analysis of the labour process. The agency-structure relation as detailed by critical realism is set out and placed in the context of wider debates surrounding the notion of structure. In particular the transcendenta…
The “Closure” Assumption as a First Step
In this paper I accept that just as mainstream economics can be characterized by its insistence upon a deductivist method, so the least contentious, most widely accepted aspects of Post-Keynesianism can be accounted for by its anti-deductivist stance and more specifically by its tacit commitment to something like critical realism. I argue that neo- Ricardian economics, to the extent that it takes closure for granted as a natural and useful starti…
Needs and wants
In this article I identify two broad perspectives on broadcasting policy, each deploying very different assumptions regarding the role of policy in facilitating human well-being. I argue that in increasingly influential wants-based position draws upon an impoverished social ontology which is unable to sustain the distinction between wants and underlying needs. I also argue that the previously dominant beyond-wants perspective failed to elaborate …
Marshall on Tendencies, Equilibrium, and the Statical Method
Research Article| March 01 1998 Marshall on Tendencies, Equilibrium, and the Statical Method Stephen Pratten Stephen Pratten 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1998) 30 (1): 121–163. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-30-1-121 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Pratten; Marshall on Tendencies, Equilibrium, and the Statical …
Reinventing the Market? Competition and Regulatory Change in Broadcasting
The reforms instituted by the Broadcasting Act 1990 led to a period of turbulence and upheaval within broadcasting with results that were at best unintended and, at worst, seriously undermined the ideal of public service broadcasting. A Hayekian economic perspective would suggest that the reforms failed because they did not go far enough in the direction of full ? marketization? . The paper develops an alternative perspective, based on an adaptat…
The Evolving Rationality of Rational Expectations
Quasi Markets, Transaction Costs, and Trust
Competitiveness policy and economic organization
Journal Article Competitiveness policy and economic organization: the case of the British film industry Get access Stephen Pratten, Stephen Pratten Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Simon Deakin Simon Deakin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 41, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 217–237, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/41.2.217 Published: 01 July 2000
Critical Realism and Causality
Rom Harré's generative account of causality has been drawn on heavily by advocates of critical realism. Yet Harré argues that critical realists often exaggerate the extent to which powerful causal explanations of social phenomena can be developed. Certain proponents of critical realism have responded to Harré's criticisms by suggesting that it is useful to consider the relevant issues in relation to the familiar Aristotelian classification of fou…
Essentialism and the Social
In this paper I show that two senses are often assigned to essences in frameworks that award them a significant ontological status. There is both a defining sense and a more concrete-explanatory sense. Once this distinction is recognized, competing forms of essentialism can be differentiated and their implications more easily explored. As an example of work where the defining and the concrete-explanatory senses of essence are tied closely togethe…
Critical Realism and the Process Account of Emergence
For advocates of critical realism emergence is a central theme. Critical realists typically ground their defence of the relative disciplinary autonomy of various sciences by arguing that emergent phenomena exist in a robust non‐ontologically, non‐causally reductionist sense. Despite the importance they attach to it critical realists have only recently begun to elaborate on emergence at length and systematically compare their own account with thos…
Community, Rights and the Self
Ce document examine les liens entre la manière de rendre compte de la réalité sociale esquissée par George Herbert Mead et développée par Beth Singer et la contrepartie que l’on trouve chez les promoteurs du réalisme critique. Que ce soit principalement dans l’optique d’une défense de la pertinence des contributions de Mead ou dans la perspective d’un raffinement de l’ontologie sociale associée au réalisme critique, les auteurs qui ont déjà compa…
Social Ontology and Modern Economics
Cambridge Social Ontology
Social ontology—the study of the nature and basic structure of the social realm—is currently enjoying a period of sustained growth and development, both as a field of study in its own right and as a project concerned with under-labouring for a variety of different social scientific disciplines including economics. One of the most active streams in this area emanates from Cambridge and a group of researchers operating at the interface between soci…
Trust and the social positioning process
When setting out, defending and exploring the implications of his specific position in social ontology Tony Lawson highlights the importance of trust. Despite the significance he attaches to trust Lawson does not provide an extended elaboration of the nature of trust but rather considers it in various contexts where his primary focus lies elsewhere. The purpose of the current paper is to examine how trust features in Lawson’s discussions. I ident…
Dewey on Organisation
In some of his later contributions Dewey places particular emphasis on the category of organisation. Organisation features prominently both in his later metaphysical writings and in some of his more substantively focussed contributions. Organisation is also a central category for two contemporary ontological projects, namely Tony Lawson’s perspective on social ontology and the interactivist framework developed by Mark Bickhard and his collaborato…
Social positioning and Commons’s monetary theorising
The argument of this paper is that the neglect of John Commons’s monetary theorising is in large part due to his contributions being insufficiently situated in his broader framework of analysis where community rights and duties are emphasised as essential features of social reality. It is further argued that the sophistication and significance of Commons’s account of money can be appreciated once it is recognised as a variant of the recently deve…
Social positioning theory and Dewey’s ontology of persons, objects and offices
Social positioning theory, in defending a general social ontology, is a particular extension of critical realism. It is a theory of social constitution that clarifies how items including human beings and things are relationally organized as instances of community components. This extension of critical realism is directly comparable to fundamental but underexamined contributions of the classical American pragmatist John Dewey and specifically his …
The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory
The term function currently features prominently in outlines of social positioning theory but a sustained account of the view of function informing social positioning theory has yet to be supplied. In the absence of a fuller articulation of the theory's underlying view of function confusion and misinterpretation are likely to be encouraged especially among those committed to one or other of the numerous alternative accounts of function available.…
Veblen, Marshall and neoclassical economics
Alfred Marshall is often depicted as a pioneer of neoclassical economics almost as if this is a label he embraces and promotes. Yet neoclassical economics is not a category Marshall deploys but a term Thorstein Veblen introduces in characterising Marshall. Veblen coins the term neoclassical to identify an ontological discrepancy in the work of a specific group of his contemporaries, a prominent figure among whom is Marshall. Veblen's view is that…
Money and Its Body in the Social Positioning and Credit Perspectives
A new and distinctive version of the credit theory of money is advanced by Samuel A. Chambers in his book Money Has No Value. The account of money sponsored by social positioning theory is an alternative perspective against which Chambers’ new credit theory can be productively compared. This review article draws out the differences between these competing theories of the nature of money. An examination of Chambers’ brief, largely dismissive, rema…
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