Cardinale, Ivano. 2024. Collective objectives, particular objectives, and structural conditions: On Pasinetti’s natural economic system and the “institutional problem”. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 70, pp. 202-210. ISSN 0954-349X [Article]

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Abstract or Description

The paper builds on Pasinetti's separation between a dynamic path that provides a normative framework (the “natural economic system”) and the need to devise concrete institutions to approximate that path (the “institutional problem”). The paper argues that addressing the “institutional problem” requires theorising the role of actions within economic structures. By doing so, it proposes an approach to institutional analysis that shows how an economy growing with structural change offers opportunities for, and imposes constraints on, the pursuit of collective objectives as well as particular objectives by social groups variously defined. It also makes it possible to address the interplay between collective and particular objectives. A key argument is that how social groups themselves represent structures and their position therein is a nonreducible factor to explain which dynamic path an economy follows out of those which a given structure makes possible.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2024.02.001
Data Access Statement:	No data was used for the research described in the article.
Keywords:	Luigi Pasinetti, structural economic dynamics, Institutions, collective objectives, particular objectives
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Institute of Management Studies Institute of Management Studies > Structural Economic Analysis
Dates:	Date Event 2 February 2024 Accepted 14 February 2024 Published Online September 2024 Published
Item ID:	34745
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2024 09:21
Last Modified:	12 Mar 2024 14:04
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34745

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