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Culture and Economics. 5Th International Economic Philosophy Conference (23-25 Jun 2021 Warszawa, Poland) Culture and Economics. 5th International Economic Philosophy Conference (23-25 Jun 2021 Warszawa, Poland) Book of Abstracts Session 1: Banking, money and culture ................................................................................................... 4 A contribution on relationship banking. Economic, anthropological and mathematical reasoning, empirical evidence from Italy .............................................................................................................. 4 Is it Possible to Shape Moral Attitudes in Banking Culture ? - the Polish example............................. 4 The Functional Unity of Liquid Assets ................................................................................................. 6 Session 2: Economic justice and culture ................................................................................................. 7 Culture, Individualism and Preferences for Redistribution ................................................................. 7 Explotation, Trade Justice, and Corporate Obligations ....................................................................... 7 Philosophical Underpinnings of 'Efficiency' and 'Justice': The Cultural Economy of Land and Law- Making as Basis and Critique ............................................................................................................... 8 The moral reason of intergenerational justice .................................................................................... 9 Session 3: French session ...................................................................................................................... 10 Apprentissage et découverte du rationalisme critique ..................................................................... 10 Dépréciation de la culture et science économique le contre-exemple de Rosa Luxemburg ............ 10 L'économie, le désenchantement du monde et le conflit des valeurs: une réévaluation ................ 11 Session 4: Values, utilities and social welfare ....................................................................................... 12 Cultural Reality and Metaphysics in Economics: A Contemporary Phenomenological Approach of Economic Facts .................................................................................................................................. 12 Interpersonal comparison of utilities as a case study: the role of values of economists and economic agents in economics ......................................................................................................... 13 Use and abuse of Weber's methodology by value-free economics .................................................. 15 Values in Welfare economics ............................................................................................................ 17 Session 5: Taxes, money, cultural sentiments ....................................................................................... 17 An Important Philosophical Dispute in Toronto: Lonergan, Gilson and Anticipations of Critical Realism and MMT in Economics ....................................................................................................... 17 George Simmel versus Viviana Zelizer. The polemic with Viviana Zelizer's view on George Simmel's theory of money ................................................................................................................................ 18 The Strange Case of Dr. Taxpayer and Mr. Charity: Culture of Giving and Tax Percentage Institutions......................................................................................................................................... 19 1 Session 6: French session ...................................................................................................................... 20 Choix préférentiel, action logique et éthique communicationnelle ................................................. 20 Les humanités dans les universités et les dérives de la logique marchande dans la culture-monde21 Les mecanismes culturels de la repression economique .................................................................. 22 Session 7: Social norms and economic preferences ............................................................................. 23 Did Faust freely sign? Preference formation, positive freedom, and consumer sovereignty .......... 23 The Feminisation U, Cultural Norms, and the Plough ....................................................................... 24 What are the moral foundations of heterodox schools in economics? Normative tensions or common ground? .............................................................................................................................. 26 Session 8: Culture and economic growth .............................................................................................. 27 Cultural economics : the cultural entrepreneur as a vector of growth. ........................................... 27 Ideas Shaping the World: Using Text Analysis to Examine the spread of Trade Theories in 19th Century Britain .................................................................................................................................. 28 Impact of culture of India on the success of pro-market reforms. ................................................... 28 Inequalities in cultural engagement and economic growth: combining post-Keynesian and cultural economics .......................................................................................................................................... 29 Session 9: Digital economy and creative industries .............................................................................. 30 Cultural and Religious Heritage and Multiple Digital Currencies for a Humane Economy: Standard- Based Stewardship or Preference-Based Regulation of the Blockchain in an Emergent Pan- European Order ................................................................................................................................. 30 Entrepreneurial economy through the lens of complexity ............................................................... 30 Infinite, risky outcomes ..................................................................................................................... 31 Internet piracy and video game sales - evidence from two studies.................................................. 33 Session 10: Culture,behaviour and economic order ............................................................................. 34 Competition: What It Is and Why It Is Morally Problematic ............................................................. 34 Cultural maladaptation in economics ............................................................................................... 35 Economics, social neuroscience, and mindshaping .......................................................................... 36 Individual freedom and the economic order in the ordoliberal thought .......................................... 37 Session 11: Economists and the Public Trust ........................................................................................ 37 Economists in the Democratic Discourse: Between Elitism and Egalitarianism ............................... 37 The Cultural Shift Toward ‘New' Paternalism in Economics – A Contractarian Critique .................. 39 When is economics bullshit? ............................................................................................................. 39 Session 12: Reciprocity and care ........................................................................................................... 40 Beyond Institutions: A Systemic Look at Economic Phenomena from the Complexity Approach ... 40 Economics and National Cultures ...................................................................................................... 40 Meritocracy vs Careocracy ................................................................................................................ 41 Session 13: Happiness and emotions .................................................................................................... 42 2 Back to Aristotle? Explorations of Objective Happiness ................................................................... 42 John Dewey: an open door to the economics of emotions .............................................................. 42 Market Nudges and Autonomy ......................................................................................................... 43 May Students in Business administration and Economy Will Be Passionpreneurs in Labour Market? ........................................................................................................................................................... 43 Session 14: Research styles and epistemic cultures .............................................................................. 44 Economic modelling through a cultural lens ..................................................................................... 44 New functionalism and the special sciences: What makes functional explanations legitimate? ..... 45 When the Realism of Assumptions Mattered: Milton Friedman's Critique of the Phillips Curve ..... 47 Session 15: Institutions, governance and economy .............................................................................. 49 Decomposition of the economic value of cultural goods. 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