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Economic Theory and the Social Question: Some Dialectics Regarding the Work-Dependency Relationship

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Wagner, R. Economic Theory and the Social Question: Some Dialectics Regarding the Work-Dependency Relationship. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 139(2–4), 407-420. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.139.2-4.407
Wagner, Richard E. "Economic Theory and the Social Question: Some Dialectics Regarding the Work-Dependency Relationship" Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 139.2–4, 2019, 407-420. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.139.2-4.407
Wagner, Richard E. (2019): Economic Theory and the Social Question: Some Dialectics Regarding the Work-Dependency Relationship, in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, vol. 139, iss. 2–4, 407-420, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.139.2-4.407
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Economic Theory and the Social Question: Some Dialectics Regarding the Work-Dependency Relationship

Wagner, Richard E.

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 139 (2019), Iss. 2–4 : pp. 407–420

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Duncker & Humblot
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Wagner, Richard E., Department of Economics and F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, George Mason University, Buchanan Hall D 101, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.

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Abstract

This article uses the 19th century concern with “the social question” to explore how theories shape our insights into our subjects of interest. Contemporary theory mostly construes economics as a science of rational action, which reduces the social question to a matter of material inequality. In contrast, this article treats economics as a form of social theory, with the social question revolving around the material and the moral qualities of societies. While redistribution may be a component of efforts to address the social question, primary focus rests on the institutional arrangements through which human capacities are formed and moral orientations generated.

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Section Title Page Action Price
Economic Theory and the Social Question: Some Dialectics Regarding the Work-Dependency Relationship 407
By Richard E. Wagner 407
Abstract 407
1. Society or Rational Action? 407
2. Leveling, raising, and the Social Question 409
3. Raising and Leveling within a Theory of Social Economy 410
4. Polycentric Arrangements for the Political Economy of Raising 414
5. A Peroration on Quantity, Quality, and Social Flourishing 407
References 407

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