Guy Oakes
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3659751 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Guy Oakes |
| PRENOMES | Guy |
| SOBRENOME | Oakes |
| ASSINATURA | OAKES G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Monmouth University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 276 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Cambridge 1938
This article argues that in the early months of 1938, the efforts of Cambridge economists to reform the Economic Tripos, or honors degree, were overshadowed by a sense of crisis—the fear that Cambridge was losing its preeminent stature in the field. As archival sources show, several considerations proved to be crucial. Colin Clark, the only economic statistician at the university, resigned. At the same time, the faculty failed to come to terms wi…
Radical Historicization and Anti-teleology-Rethinking Constructing Economic Science
In Constructing Economic Science (2022), Keith Tribe's grand syn the sis of the gen e sis, path ways, and byways of Brit ish eco nom ics from Marshall to Robbins, the author pres ents him self as a scourge of tel e o log i cal his to ri og ra phy and cham pion of the pro ject of "rad i cally historicising."In a dense book that exca vates some thirtyfive years of his work, per haps it is not sur pris ing that read ers are left to puz zle out exact…
Schriften 1934 - 1942
The "Tragedy of Cambridge Economics" and Other Stories
In mid-February 1938, J. M. Keynes received a letter from Richard Kahn, at the time a member of the Cambridge Faculty Board of Economics and Politics, on the reform of the Economics Tripos, the honors degree introduced by Alfred Marshall in 1903. The faculty were in general agreement on its defects and the pressing importance of revision. On the question of what to do, they could not reach consensus despite recognizing that Cambridge was losing g…
Eros and Modernity
The text below was originally published under the name “Eros and Modernity: Simmel on Love” in: The Sociology of Emotions: Original Essays and Research Paper. Franks, D.D. and E. Doyle McCarthy (ed.). Greenwich, CT: JAI press, 1989, pp. 229-247. In the words of its author, the text was written at a time when he was intensely engaged with Simmel, working on his philosophy of history and his hermeneutics. Today, Guy Oakes revisits this text and all…
Thinking with Wolfgang Schluchter
The Ethics of Political Economy
The career of Arthur Cecil Pigou was marked by a clearly articulated project of public economic enlightenment initiated in 1903 and sustained into the mid-1950s. We argue as follows: Pigou held that in the British polity of his time, citizens were indirectly but ultimately responsible for economic policy. However, he was convinced that the British public was woefully ignorant of economic affairs and incapable of understanding elementary economic …
Pigou, The Novel
The First Serious Optimist fits smoothly in a genre of intellectual history, fashionable for some time, that treats ideas with a relatively light touch. The stress is rather on the circumstances under which ideas are produced: the respects in which intellectual work is embedded in the vicissitudes of personal lives and careers, political and economic conditions, and the conflicts they exhibit. The point is to document how the world of thought int…
"The Cambridge Tradition" Reconsidered
Review Article| December 01 2018 "The Cambridge Tradition" Reconsidered The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics. 2 vols. Edited by Cord, Robert A.London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xvii; 1225 pp. $264.00. Nahid Aslanbeigui; Nahid Aslanbeigui Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Guy Oakes Guy Oakes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (4): 777–788. https://doi.…
The Great War and the Genesis of Pigou’s A Study in Public Finance
This essay explores three closely linked themes. (1) The arguments A.C. Pigou employed in his political economy of the Great War to support his conclusions concerning how Britain could best pay for the war and finance the debt incurred in waging it. (2) The more general sociological and institutional assumptions of his political economy of war: his conviction, stated as early as February 1916, that some twenty years after the Great War, Britain w…
On Coaseana
Ronald H. Coase’s article of 1960, “The Problem of Social Cost,” sketched a program for economic policy analysis based on three assumptions. (1) A Total Output Premise: the objective of economic policy is to maximize the productive value of the economic system as a whole. (2) A Reciprocity Premise: spillovers or externalities are symmetrical or bilateral. If an economic venture undertaken by A damages B, B also damages A regardless of whether B i…
The British Tariff Reform Controversy and the Genesis of Pigou's Wealth and Welfare, 1903-12
In the acrimonious British controversy over free trade in 1903-6, tariff reformers advocated protective and preferential tariffs to increase the revenue of the exchequer and unify the British Empire. Their arguments-generally informal and labile-were based on several premises: British welfare-not to be confused with material wealth-depended on economic productivity, the prosperity of the working class, and an economic policy that maintained a sta…
The politics of truth reconsidered
Following introductory remarks on Mills's academic persona and current reputation, I pursue two lines of investigation. First, I analyze the deep structure of his thought, constituted by a pragmatist epistemology and a radical sociology, or 'politics of truth.' Then I argue that this structure is undermined by inconsistencies between its two components
On Pigou’s Theory of Economic Policy Analysis
L’économie politique d’Arthur C. Pigou est en général considérée comme un ensemble de recommandations politiques - en particulier les taxes et les subventions « pigouviennes » - conçues de manière à maximiser le bien-être économique. Nous remettons en question cette conception et nous montrons que Pigou ne défendait pas certaines politiques en particulier, mais qu’il était plutôt un logicien de l’analyse des politiques. Bien qu’il se soit prononc…
On Pigou’s Theory of Economic Policy Analysis
The economics of A.C. Pigou is generally regarded as an ensemble of policies—chiefly ‘Pigouvian’ taxes and subsidies—designed to maximize economic welfare. We contest this view, arguing that Pigou was not a proponent of specific policies but rather a logician of policy analysis. Although he assessed welfare programs of his time, his judgments on policies were invariably prima facie, hedged and qualified by a formidable array of restrictive and co…
Hostage to Fortune
In February 1933, Edward Chamberlin published The Theory of Monopolistic Competition. Joan Robinson's The Economics of Imperfect Competition followed in the spring. A disciplinary consensus quickly formed, holding that the two books represented simultaneous discoveries of the same theoretical ideas and covered the same ground. Chamberlin was adamant in insisting on fundamental differences between their positions. Convinced of the superior explana…
Mr. Big
Assessing Microcredit in Bangladesh
Assessing microcredit programs by testing their contribution to the empowerment of borrowers has been widely advocated and explored in the literature on women and development. There is considerable debate on whether microcredit empowers or disempowers women, and there are attempts to reconcile conflicting conclusions based on heterogeneous samples or data sets and grounded in a variety of methodologies. Although there is little agreement on the r…
Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen
Academic Career Management
Max Weber on Value Rationality and Value Spheres
This essay considers a question that Weber scholarship seems to have left untouched: is Weber's concept of value rationality coherent? In making the case that it is not, I begin with the premise that value rationality is a product of processes of value rationalization that operate in value spheres. Because of self-destructive defects that undermine Weber's analysis of these processes, his account of value rationality is invalidated as well. I con…
Collaboration, Reputation, and Ethics in American Academic Life
The meteoric rise of the sociologist C. Wright Mills from a brash and ambitious graduate student to a leading figure in the American intellectual establishment was launched by his collaboration with Hans Gerth on two seminal works on Max Weber. The story of their thirteen-year partnership reveals a relationship of Shakespearean complexity in which respect, trust, generosity, and perhaps even love did not exclude envy, resentment, deceit, and betr…
The Antinomy of Values
In this article, I revisit Max Weber's lecture 'Science as a Vocation' by considering his position that choices between values are, in the end, irrational. In examining an argument, which he attributes to Tolstoy, on the relationship between modern culture, science and the meaningless of death, I attempt to prove that Weber's position nullifies the premises on which it is based. As a result, his case for the irrationality of values is self-destru…
Gerth, Mills, and Shils
On the Unity of Max Weber's Methodology
Weber and Rickert
Critique of Stammler
Georg Simmel
Max Weber on Value Rationality and Value Spheres
This essay considers a question that Weber scholarship seems to have left untouched: is Weber's concept of value rationality coherent? In making the case that it is not, I begin with the premise that value rationality is a product of processes of value rationalization that operate in value spheres. Because of self-destructive defects that undermine Weber's analysis of these processes, his account of value rationality is invalidated as well. I con…
Essays on Interpretation in Social Science
Collaboration, Reputation, and Ethics in American Academic Life
The meteoric rise of the sociologist C. Wright Mills from a brash and ambitious graduate student to a leading figure in the American intellectual establishment was launched by his collaboration with Hans Gerth on two seminal works on Max Weber. The story of their thirteen-year partnership reveals a relationship of Shakespearean complexity in which respect, trust, generosity, and perhaps even love did not exclude envy, resentment, deceit, and betr…
Weber's Protestant Ethic
The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its publication in 1904–5. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws …
The Verstehen Thesis and the Foundations of Max Weber's Methodology
The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science
1. Introduction: Rickert's theory of historical knowledge The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science: 2. Introduction 3. Nature and history 4. Concept formation in history 5. Philosophy of nature and philosophy of history Index
On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing
One of the pioneers of modern sociology, Max Scheler (1874- 1928) ranks with Max Weber, Edmund Husserl, Ernst Troeltsch as being among the most brilliant minds of his generation. Yet Scheler is now known chiefly for his philosophy of religion, despite his groundbreaking work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of emotions, phenomenological sociology. This volume comprises some of Scheler's most interesting work-including an analysis of t…
Farewell to The Protestant Ethic
Weber once observed that it is the fate of any piece of scientific research or scholarship to become antiquated within fifty years of its production. Pellicani has recently argued that this fate is long overdue for Weber's most celebrated and widely read work: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Is it time to bid farewell to The Protestant Ethic? In the ensuing, I examine the case Pellicani makes for this position. In section (I), …
Max Weber und die Rationalisierung sozialen Handelns
Assessing Microcredit in Bangladesh
Assessing microcredit programs by testing their contribution to the empowerment of borrowers has been widely advocated and explored in the literature on women and development. There is considerable debate on whether microcredit empowers or disempowers women, and there are attempts to reconcile conflicting conclusions based on heterogeneous samples or data sets and grounded in a variety of methodologies. Although there is little agreement on the r…
Straight thinking about queer theory
Weber and Rickert
Max Weber and the Southwest German school
History and Natural Science
The Antinomy of Values
In this article, I revisit Max Weber's lecture 'Science as a Vocation' by considering his position that choices between values are, in the end, irrational. In examining an argument, which he attributes to Tolstoy, on the relationship between modern culture, science and the meaningless of death, I attempt to prove that Weber's position nullifies the premises on which it is based. As a result, his case for the irrationality of values is self-destru…
Georg Simmel
On the Unity of Max Weber's Methodology
The American life insurance salesman
Rickert's Value Theory and the Foundations of Weber's Methodology
The general area of this essay is an issue left unexplored by the tradition of commentary on Rickert's philosophy and Weber's methodology: the question of the relationship between Rickert's value theory and the validity of Weber's methodological positions. Within this area, the essay focuses on the question of the relationship between Rickert's analysis of the problem of the objectivity of values and Weber's conception of the objectivity of the c…
The "Tragedy of Cambridge Economics" and Other Stories
In mid-February 1938, J. M. Keynes received a letter from Richard Kahn, at the time a member of the Cambridge Faculty Board of Economics and Politics, on the reform of the Economics Tripos, the honors degree introduced by Alfred Marshall in 1903. The faculty were in general agreement on its defects and the pressing importance of revision. On the question of what to do, they could not reach consensus despite recognizing that Cambridge was losing g…
On Pigou’s Theory of Economic Policy Analysis
The economics of A.C. Pigou is generally regarded as an ensemble of policies—chiefly ‘Pigouvian’ taxes and subsidies—designed to maximize economic welfare. We contest this view, arguing that Pigou was not a proponent of specific policies but rather a logician of policy analysis. Although he assessed welfare programs of his time, his judgments on policies were invariably prima facie, hedged and qualified by a formidable array of restrictive and co…
Academic Career Management
Roscher and Knies
The Verstehen Thesis and the Foundations of Max Weber's Methodology
The Origin of Negative Dialectics
Klassiker des soziologischen Denkens. Vol. 1
Critique of Stammler
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation
History and Natural Science
The epistemological foundations of cultural materialism
Essays on Interpretation in Social Science
Weber Reconstructed
Max Weber und die Rationalisierung sozialen Handelns
Sociological Impressionism
Das Werk Max Webers in der Marxistischen Rezeption und Kritik
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Max Weber and the Southwest German school
Remarks on Weber and Rickert
Weber and Rickert
Reading Weber'sWissenschaftslehre
The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science
1. Introduction: Rickert's theory of historical knowledge The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science: 2. Introduction 3. Nature and history 4. Concept formation in history 5. Philosophy of nature and philosophy of history Index
Farewell to The Protestant Ethic
Weber once observed that it is the fate of any piece of scientific research or scholarship to become antiquated within fifty years of its production. Pellicani has recently argued that this fate is long overdue for Weber's most celebrated and widely read work: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Is it time to bid farewell to The Protestant Ethic? In the ensuing, I examine the case Pellicani makes for this position. In section (I), …
Rickert's Value Theory and the Foundations of Weber's Methodology
The general area of this essay is an issue left unexplored by the tradition of commentary on Rickert's philosophy and Weber's methodology: the question of the relationship between Rickert's value theory and the validity of Weber's methodological positions. Within this area, the essay focuses on the question of the relationship between Rickert's analysis of the problem of the objectivity of values and Weber's conception of the objectivity of the c…
Sales as a vocation
Four Questions Concerning The Protestant Ethic
The Following will make certain assumptions, both as a way of foregoing trivial and sterile polemics and to avoid retracing previously ground, I will assume that the reader knows that Pellicani, despite his allegations to the contrary, does indeed employ Luther's philippic against the acquisitive spirit as well as Calvin's denunciation of ambition and greed as support for his own attack on The Protestant Ethic. Most important, I will assume that …
The American life insurance salesman
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