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Hilary Putnam and Vivian Walsh argue that Amartya Sen’s contribution can,
like the writings of Piero Sraffa, be best interpreted as a revival of classical political
economy, in which Sen brings back into economics a richer conception of the human
agent, and a moral dimension. Sen criticises the conception of rationality that underpins
mainstream microeconomic theory, and suggests an alternative framework that can
accommodate a variety of motivations, including moral motivations, as will be argued
here. Furthermore, the work of Sen, and other authors of the Cambridge tradition who
also devoted much time to the revival of classical political economy, are complementary
in many respects, and provide the basic tools for an alternative economic theory, which
is centred on the economic, social and ethical analysis of the production and distribution
of the economic surplus, and not on the modelling of the activity of optimising agents in
a context of scarcity. While the notion of scarcity is very important for the analysis of
poverty and deprivation that Sen undertakes, the central issue to address, in order to
explain the causal mechanisms behind scarcity, poverty and deprivation, concerns the
study of the production and distribution of the economic surplus.
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MARTINS, Nuno Miguel Ornelas - The Revival of Classical Political Economy and the Cambridge Tradition: From Scarcity Theory to Surplus Theory. Review of Political Economy. ISSN 1465-3982. Vol. 23, N.º 1 (2011), p. 111-131
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Taylor & Francis