We Heal as One: Collective Intentionality as a Building Block for the Necessary and Urgent Reformation of Economics in the New Normal

• Main Author: Peña, Paul John M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: Collective intention; rationality; methodological individualism; economic methodology; philosophy of economics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol21/iss3/11; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1391/viewcontent/RA_2010.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

I present an alternative to methodological individualism and the assumption of instrumentally rational individuals that dominates much of mainstream economic theorizing. Following mainly Davis’ corpus of work on the socially embedded individual, I argue that methodological individualism no longer wo...