Mark A Lutz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5605033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark A Lutz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lutz |
| SIGNATURE | LUTZ M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The ‘Dismal Science’ – Still? Economics and Human Flourishing
This paper is an attempt to evaluate critically standard economic theory from the point of view of self-realization ethics and psychology. In doing so, there is considerable reliance on Abraham Maslow's well-known theory of personality development. According to his penetrating insight, it is insecurity that keeps a person trapped in a world of materialism – be it a desperate survival mentality, a preoccupation with excessive sexuality, or an unab…
Revisiting the Relevance of International Trade Theory
Probably one of the most controversial contributions to the literature of international trade theory was offered by the late social economist John Culbertson. In his view, low wage competition among corporations in a world characterized by capital mobility and massive trade deficits undermines the foundation trade theory based on David Ricardo’s celebrated notion of comparative advantage. Instead, there are several good reasons to believe that in…
Social economics, justice and the common good
A precise definition of “social economics” has been the subject of much debate for the last 30 years and, as yet, there seems to be no general consensus of opinion. This paper attempts to embrace the apparent pluralism of viewpoints as a temporary instrument to encourage critical debate and dialogue in order to work towards a unified concept of social economics.
Sorting the Wash
It is a great pleasure and honor to have the opportunity to elutriate the criticisms of my book by three distinguished economists. Since two of the three reviews expressed some discomfort about either the general purpose and/or the basic orientation of the book, I will start out with a brief restatement about what it is supposed to be. This seems particularly necessary because my name is still associated by too many with Abraham Maslow and The Ch…
Distinguishing characteristics of ahuman economics
What are the requirements for an economics that is compatible with, and affirmative of, a meaninful image of human nature? Where does conventional economic theory show its most glaring deficiencies in this respect? What are the core human values that need to inform economic thought capable of guiding us in the design and construction of a more humane economic system? Why is the bulk of contemporary heterodox economic thinking antagonistic to the …
Gender and cooperative behavior: Economic man rides alone
Neoclassical theory posits an undifferentiated economic agent whose self-interested behavior promotes a tendency to free ride in the provision of public goods. Challenges to this rigid portrayal of human character have come from a variety of directions. A dozen years ago Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames conducted experiments which showed that (virtually all male) economic graduate students tended to free ride significantly more than a mixed populatio…
Truth, self, and feminism
Humanistic economics is founded on the reality of human needs. One of those needs is for truth. According to the correspondence theory, that truth is a relation between statement and objective reality. This reality serves as a constraint on the (ego) self. Therefore, it can also be shown that self-interest is an independent principle from the commitment to truth, and that these two principles can clash. These two principles of the self, or the “h…
Centering Social Economics on Human Dignity 1
The paper explores a social economics centered on the normative value of human dignity. The first part of the paper explores the philosophical meaning of the concept. In the process, great weight is given to Alan Gewirth's “dialectically necessary argument” for human dignity, grounding the concept in human agency. The second part explores some of the apparent major implications: a rejection of both positive methodology and cultural relativism; th…
Commenting on Gendered Economics: Mushroom Men, Straw Men, and Real Persons
This comment is offered as a defense of humanistic economics whose feminist credentials have been questioned by Julie Nelson. To her, our contribution is little less than orthodox economics, an ideology enshrining masculine values. We find her arguments based on a clear misreading or misinterpretation of our work. Especially needing correction is her charge that our key notion of a dual self is contaminated by traditional hierarchy and masculiniz…
Social economics and economics imperialism
Cardinal Issues in the Future of Social Economics: A Humanistic View
Social economics must be seeking its unity in the forces of human nature. That is no easy task. Elsewhere (Lutz, 1990, 407-42), I have indicated that our Association can be characterized as a rather heterogeneous group with several divergent orientations, but with a common core: a strong conviction that economic thinking and discourse cannot be carried out in an ethical vacuum, and that it is this explicit ethical foundation which is so distincti…
Humanistic economics: The mondo continues
Future wealth: A new economics for the 21st Century
Emphasizing the Social: Social Economics and Socio-Economics
(1990). Emphasizing the Social: Social Economics and Socio-Economics. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 303-320
Social Economics: Retrospect and Prospect
This series is devoted to works that present divergent views on the development, prospects, and tensions within some important research areas of international economic thought.Among the fields covered are macromonetary policy, public finance, labor and political economy.The emphasis of the series is on providing a critical, constructive view of each of these fields, as well as a forum through which leading scholars of international reputation may…
McCain’s humanistic economics: A commentary
(1989). McCain’s humanistic economics: A commentary. Forum for Social Economics: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 96-99
A Meditation on Economy and Society
A Meditation On Economy and Society
Instrumental Value Theory and Social Economics: A Rejoinder to Lewis Hill
It is a privilege to respond to the comments made by one of the great protagonists of instrumental value theory. Lewis Hill is both a direct disciple of Clarence Ayres and perhaps the most avid advocate for a reorientation of social economics along instrumentalist lines. We agree that the issues we are addressing are of overriding importance and so warrant public discussion and clarification. For his part, he chose to focus on four points he beli…
Pragmatism,Instrumental Value Theory and Social Economics
Since the summer of 1970, when the membership of the Catholic Economic Association voted to change its name to the Association for Social Economics and accepted a revised version of its aims and objec? tives, the association has grown not only in membership but also in heterogeneity. It seems to have been easier to agree on what is wrong with positivistic, mainstream economics than to define a normative conception of economic science that would c…
New directions in humanistic economics or How to overcome the utility monster
The Limitations of Karl Marx' Social Economics ∗
Future wealth: A new economics for the 21st Century
Pragmatism,Instrumental Value Theory and Social Economics
Since the summer of 1970, when the membership of the Catholic Economic Association voted to change its name to the Association for Social Economics and accepted a revised version of its aims and objec? tives, the association has grown not only in membership but also in heterogeneity. It seems to have been easier to agree on what is wrong with positivistic, mainstream economics than to define a normative conception of economic science that would c…
Gender and cooperative behavior: Economic man rides alone
Neoclassical theory posits an undifferentiated economic agent whose self-interested behavior promotes a tendency to free ride in the provision of public goods. Challenges to this rigid portrayal of human character have come from a variety of directions. A dozen years ago Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames conducted experiments which showed that (virtually all male) economic graduate students tended to free ride significantly more than a mixed populatio…
Social economics and economics imperialism
The ‘Dismal Science’ – Still? Economics and Human Flourishing
This paper is an attempt to evaluate critically standard economic theory from the point of view of self-realization ethics and psychology. In doing so, there is considerable reliance on Abraham Maslow's well-known theory of personality development. According to his penetrating insight, it is insecurity that keeps a person trapped in a world of materialism – be it a desperate survival mentality, a preoccupation with excessive sexuality, or an unab…
Centering Social Economics on Human Dignity 1
The paper explores a social economics centered on the normative value of human dignity. The first part of the paper explores the philosophical meaning of the concept. In the process, great weight is given to Alan Gewirth's “dialectically necessary argument” for human dignity, grounding the concept in human agency. The second part explores some of the apparent major implications: a rejection of both positive methodology and cultural relativism; th…
Cardinal Issues in the Future of Social Economics: A Humanistic View
Social economics must be seeking its unity in the forces of human nature. That is no easy task. Elsewhere (Lutz, 1990, 407-42), I have indicated that our Association can be characterized as a rather heterogeneous group with several divergent orientations, but with a common core: a strong conviction that economic thinking and discourse cannot be carried out in an ethical vacuum, and that it is this explicit ethical foundation which is so distincti…
New directions in humanistic economics or How to overcome the utility monster
Revisiting the Relevance of International Trade Theory
Probably one of the most controversial contributions to the literature of international trade theory was offered by the late social economist John Culbertson. In his view, low wage competition among corporations in a world characterized by capital mobility and massive trade deficits undermines the foundation trade theory based on David Ricardo’s celebrated notion of comparative advantage. Instead, there are several good reasons to believe that in…
Humanistic economics: The mondo continues
The Limitations of Karl Marx' Social Economics ∗
The Limitations of Karl Marx' Social Economics ∗
New directions in humanistic economics or How to overcome the utility monster
Pragmatism,Instrumental Value Theory and Social Economics
Since the summer of 1970, when the membership of the Catholic Economic Association voted to change its name to the Association for Social Economics and accepted a revised version of its aims and objec? tives, the association has grown not only in membership but also in heterogeneity. It seems to have been easier to agree on what is wrong with positivistic, mainstream economics than to define a normative conception of economic science that would c…
Instrumental Value Theory and Social Economics: A Rejoinder to Lewis Hill
It is a privilege to respond to the comments made by one of the great protagonists of instrumental value theory. Lewis Hill is both a direct disciple of Clarence Ayres and perhaps the most avid advocate for a reorientation of social economics along instrumentalist lines. We agree that the issues we are addressing are of overriding importance and so warrant public discussion and clarification. For his part, he chose to focus on four points he beli…
A Meditation on Economy and Society
A Meditation On Economy and Society
McCain’s humanistic economics: A commentary
(1989). McCain’s humanistic economics: A commentary. Forum for Social Economics: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 96-99
Humanistic economics: The mondo continues
Future wealth: A new economics for the 21st Century
Emphasizing the Social: Social Economics and Socio-Economics
(1990). Emphasizing the Social: Social Economics and Socio-Economics. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 303-320
Social Economics: Retrospect and Prospect
This series is devoted to works that present divergent views on the development, prospects, and tensions within some important research areas of international economic thought.Among the fields covered are macromonetary policy, public finance, labor and political economy.The emphasis of the series is on providing a critical, constructive view of each of these fields, as well as a forum through which leading scholars of international reputation may…
Social economics and economics imperialism
Cardinal Issues in the Future of Social Economics: A Humanistic View
Social economics must be seeking its unity in the forces of human nature. That is no easy task. Elsewhere (Lutz, 1990, 407-42), I have indicated that our Association can be characterized as a rather heterogeneous group with several divergent orientations, but with a common core: a strong conviction that economic thinking and discourse cannot be carried out in an ethical vacuum, and that it is this explicit ethical foundation which is so distincti…
Centering Social Economics on Human Dignity 1
The paper explores a social economics centered on the normative value of human dignity. The first part of the paper explores the philosophical meaning of the concept. In the process, great weight is given to Alan Gewirth's “dialectically necessary argument” for human dignity, grounding the concept in human agency. The second part explores some of the apparent major implications: a rejection of both positive methodology and cultural relativism; th…
Commenting on Gendered Economics: Mushroom Men, Straw Men, and Real Persons
This comment is offered as a defense of humanistic economics whose feminist credentials have been questioned by Julie Nelson. To her, our contribution is little less than orthodox economics, an ideology enshrining masculine values. We find her arguments based on a clear misreading or misinterpretation of our work. Especially needing correction is her charge that our key notion of a dual self is contaminated by traditional hierarchy and masculiniz…
Gender and cooperative behavior: Economic man rides alone
Neoclassical theory posits an undifferentiated economic agent whose self-interested behavior promotes a tendency to free ride in the provision of public goods. Challenges to this rigid portrayal of human character have come from a variety of directions. A dozen years ago Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames conducted experiments which showed that (virtually all male) economic graduate students tended to free ride significantly more than a mixed populatio…
Truth, self, and feminism
Humanistic economics is founded on the reality of human needs. One of those needs is for truth. According to the correspondence theory, that truth is a relation between statement and objective reality. This reality serves as a constraint on the (ego) self. Therefore, it can also be shown that self-interest is an independent principle from the commitment to truth, and that these two principles can clash. These two principles of the self, or the “h…
Distinguishing characteristics of ahuman economics
What are the requirements for an economics that is compatible with, and affirmative of, a meaninful image of human nature? Where does conventional economic theory show its most glaring deficiencies in this respect? What are the core human values that need to inform economic thought capable of guiding us in the design and construction of a more humane economic system? Why is the bulk of contemporary heterodox economic thinking antagonistic to the …
Sorting the Wash
It is a great pleasure and honor to have the opportunity to elutriate the criticisms of my book by three distinguished economists. Since two of the three reviews expressed some discomfort about either the general purpose and/or the basic orientation of the book, I will start out with a brief restatement about what it is supposed to be. This seems particularly necessary because my name is still associated by too many with Abraham Maslow and The Ch…
Social economics, justice and the common good
A precise definition of “social economics” has been the subject of much debate for the last 30 years and, as yet, there seems to be no general consensus of opinion. This paper attempts to embrace the apparent pluralism of viewpoints as a temporary instrument to encourage critical debate and dialogue in order to work towards a unified concept of social economics.
The ‘Dismal Science’ – Still? Economics and Human Flourishing
This paper is an attempt to evaluate critically standard economic theory from the point of view of self-realization ethics and psychology. In doing so, there is considerable reliance on Abraham Maslow's well-known theory of personality development. According to his penetrating insight, it is insecurity that keeps a person trapped in a world of materialism – be it a desperate survival mentality, a preoccupation with excessive sexuality, or an unab…
Revisiting the Relevance of International Trade Theory
Probably one of the most controversial contributions to the literature of international trade theory was offered by the late social economist John Culbertson. In his view, low wage competition among corporations in a world characterized by capital mobility and massive trade deficits undermines the foundation trade theory based on David Ricardo’s celebrated notion of comparative advantage. Instead, there are several good reasons to believe that in…
Economics (20 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Positive economics (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Neoclassical economics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law (6 works)