Economics, Morality, and Method

Economics, morality, and method

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5696578
AutoresJulie A Silva (0000-0002-4837-5288, University of Maryland, College Park, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen5
Número11
Páginas825-837
Fecha de publicación2011-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeography Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8198.2011.00456.x
OpenAlexW2110997031
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas50

Concerns about equity and global justice play a prominent role in contemporary debates on persistent poverty, inequality, and uneven development. Widespread dissatisfaction with development outcomes has led to a re‐examination of how we understand development, what drives it, and how we can make it fair. This article begins with a discussion of some key economic theories influencing economic geography, including both equilibrium‐ and disequilibrium‐based theories. These economic theories offer explanations of what drives economic growth, but they provided a limited view of development in that they focus on material dimensions of poverty and largely avoid normative judgments of justice and fairness. The second part of the article focuses on some influential moral and political philosophers who explicitly address issues of distributional justice and fairness and also argue for the consideration of non‐monetary factors in assessing poverty and inequality. The article concludes with some thoughts on how to attain the methodological flexibility and rigor to work with more complex concepts of development. In particular, mixed methods research designs are promoted as a useful approach for those rethinking the concept of uneven development and how to study it. Mixed methodologies can make economic geography more policy relevant in a world concerned with global justice

Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Inequality · Morality · Neoclassical economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Poverty · Sociology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law