philosophical foundations of economic reality: anthropological, ethical and metaphysical

The dominant paradigm of the economy is based on homo economicus and its positivist, mechanistic, and utilitarian approach. This leads to a form of ’technical liberalism’, advocating a market without society in which individuals are reduced to property rights and data subject to commercial transaction.

Javier Aranzadi is Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. He holds both PhD in Economics and Philosophy. He has published numerous academic articles on economics, business ethics and philosophy. In Spanish, he has published several books. In English, he has published Liberalism against Liberalism (Routledge,1999) and Human Action, Economics and Ethics (Springer, 2018).