- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 The Mosaic and the Jigsaw Puzzle -
2 Value, Exchange, and Beyond -
3 Triple Negation -
4 Fouling Our Nest -
5 The Visible and the Invisible -
6 “You Ought to Be Ashamed of Yourself!” -
7 Filial Piety and the Traditional Chinese Rural Community -
8 Doing Justice to Justice -
9 Moral Equivalents -
10 A Critique of Economic Reason -
11 Economies of Scarcity and Acquisition, Economies of Gift and Thanksgiving -
12 John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies -
13 The Responsible Society as Social Harmony -
14 Swaraj and Swadeshi -
15 Economics and Religion or Economics versus Religion -
16 Two Challenges to Market Daoism -
17 Buddhist, Western, and Hybrid Perspectives on Liberty Rights and Economic Rights -
18 The Conversation of Justice -
19 Social Justice and the Occident -
20 Three-Level Eco-Humanism in Japanese Confucianism -
21 Economic Growth, Human Well-Being, and the Environment -
22 The Moral Necessity of Socialism -
23 Invaluable Justice -
24 What Is It Like to Be a Moral Being? -
25 What Is the Value of Poverty? -
26 Economic Goods, Common Goods, and the Good Life -
27 On the Justice of Caring Labor -
28 Aging, Equality, and Confucian Selves -
29 Institutional Power Matters -
30 The Value of Diversity - Contributors
- Index
John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies
John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies
- Chapter:
- (p.229) 12 John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies
- Source:
- Value and Values
- Author(s):
Larry A. Hickman
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
This chapter places the Confucian tradition in conversation with American Pragmatism in its discussion of an alternative to neoclassical economics advanced by John Dewey and others, including Thorstein Veblen. It first considers the assumptions of institutional economics, which is highly critical of some of the “unquestioned” assumptions of the classical synthesis, such as most versions of “rational choice theory” and subjectivist accounts of “utility.” It then looks at the role of Veblen, Dewey, and others in articulating institutionalism in economic theory before turning to Dewey's and Veblen's critique of the neoclassical argument, along with the current discourse on democracy and economic development in Confucian societies. It also examines Dewey's and Veblen's alternative, an evolutionary economic theory that takes into account the history and present tendencies of the institutions that are instrumental to the formation of individuals and communities. In particular, it looks at Dewey's call for a new kind of Confucianism that would better express the profoundest values of the Chinese people as a culture of thought and intellectual influence.
Keywords: institutionalism, Pragmatism, neoclassical economics, John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, institutional economics, economic theory, democracy, institutions, Confucianism
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 The Mosaic and the Jigsaw Puzzle -
2 Value, Exchange, and Beyond -
3 Triple Negation -
4 Fouling Our Nest -
5 The Visible and the Invisible -
6 “You Ought to Be Ashamed of Yourself!” -
7 Filial Piety and the Traditional Chinese Rural Community -
8 Doing Justice to Justice -
9 Moral Equivalents -
10 A Critique of Economic Reason -
11 Economies of Scarcity and Acquisition, Economies of Gift and Thanksgiving -
12 John Dewey, Institutional Economics, and Confucian Democracies -
13 The Responsible Society as Social Harmony -
14 Swaraj and Swadeshi -
15 Economics and Religion or Economics versus Religion -
16 Two Challenges to Market Daoism -
17 Buddhist, Western, and Hybrid Perspectives on Liberty Rights and Economic Rights -
18 The Conversation of Justice -
19 Social Justice and the Occident -
20 Three-Level Eco-Humanism in Japanese Confucianism -
21 Economic Growth, Human Well-Being, and the Environment -
22 The Moral Necessity of Socialism -
23 Invaluable Justice -
24 What Is It Like to Be a Moral Being? -
25 What Is the Value of Poverty? -
26 Economic Goods, Common Goods, and the Good Life -
27 On the Justice of Caring Labor -
28 Aging, Equality, and Confucian Selves -
29 Institutional Power Matters -
30 The Value of Diversity - Contributors
- Index
