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Ethics, Justice and Economy

Ethics, Justice and Economy

This group is part of the interdisciplinary group Ethics, Justice, and Economics of Universidad de la República created in 2005, which brings together researchers from the Department of Practical Philosophy of the School of Humanities and Educational Sciences) and Instituto de Economía. It studies normative and empirical aspects, with an emphasis on justice and the interaction of public policies with preference formation as well as the social phenomena that cannot be reduced to individual terms.

The team's early work delved deeper into the capabilities approach, focusing on the concepts of agency, autonomy, and adaptive preferences. Subsequently, the thematic agenda diversified considerably. Currently, the team is working on several projects to investigate the stigma associated with poverty and the people dependent on state assistance. They also study universal income and guaranteed employment policies to address the issues of precarious labor, social cohesion and solidarity, aspirations, socially extended autonomy models, and local and regional perspectives on inequality and distributive justice. For more information, click here. 

The group has developed several projects to communicate research results. Recently, it has finished the project called “Beliefs, perceptions and attitudes about public income tranfers in Uruguay. Promotting the public debate about social policies, meritocracy and poverty“, financied by the Art. 2 Fund to the Understanding of General Interest Topics of CSIC. As part of this activity, a book and a series of videos has been prepared, which gather its main conclusions. Those videos can be watched here.

Lines of research

Stigma, autonomy, and public policies

  • Conceptual, normative, and empirical analysis of the notion of stigma to poverty and to those who receive public transfers (Clemente Estable ANII Fund Project, carried out with the EJE Udelar group).
  • Relevance analysis of some versions of Basic Income and State Guaranteed Employment and new redistributive policy designs (I+D Project, CSIC, carried out jointly with researchers from the Inequality and Poverty group).
  • Models of agency and autonomy in the framework of social policies.
  • Analysis of the effects of cash transfer programs on female empowerment and intra-household expenditure distribution for the case of Uruguay.

Preference by status and public policies

  • Analysis of positional consumption decisions, externalities, and public income transfers for the Uruguayan case.
  • Positionality of goods and their welfare implications.
  • Intergenerational transmission of status preferences and economic aspirations
  • Positional consumption and preferences for redistribution

Ideas on inequality and justice in Uruguay and Latin America

  • Systematization and analysis of the concepts of poverty and inequality in Latin America as presented in research conducted in Latin América

Members

  • Anaclara Martinis
  • Agustín Reyes (coordinador)
  • Andrea Vigorito
  • Gonzalo Salas
  • Juan Urruty
  • Publications (link)

    Recent projects and publications

La distribución de la Riqueza en Uruguay: elementos para el debate

  • Author(s): Amarante, Verónica - Brum, Matías - Fernández, Amparo - Pereira, Gustavo - Umpiérrez, Alejandra - Vigorito, Andrea - García Repetto, Ulises
  • Research group: Ethics, Justice and Economy, Inequality and Poverty
  • Year: 2010

Agencia, pobreza y bienestar. Una propuesta para su operacionalización

  • Author(s): Leites, Martín - Salas, Gonzalo - Vigorito, Andrea
  • Research group: Ethics, Justice and Economy, Inequality and Poverty
  • Year: 2009

El impacto de las políticas para la reducción de la pobreza sobre la agencia

  • Author(s): Arim, Rodrigo - Perazzo, Ivone - Amarante, Verónica
  • Research group: Ethics, Justice and Economy, Inequality and Poverty
  • Year: 2009

DT 19/19 - Bienes visibles, rasgos de personalidad y preferencias por estatus

  • Author(s): Leites, Martín - Salas, Gonzalo - Vigorito, Andrea
  • Research group: Ethics, Justice and Economy
  • Year: 2019

DT 18/17 - The effect of relative concern on life satisfaction: Relative deprivation and loss aversion

  • Author(s): Leites, Martín - Ramos, Xavier
  • Research group: Ethics, Justice and Economy
  • Year: 2017

DT 14/17 - Subjective well-being and adaptation. The case of Uruguay

  • Author(s): Salas, Gonzalo - Vigorito, Andrea
  • Research group: Ethics, Justice and Economy
  • Year: 2017

DT 13/16 - El consumo de bienes visibles y el rol del grupo de referencia. Un análisis para cuatro países de América Latina

  • Author(s): Gorga, Rodrigo - Leites, Martín - Vigorito, Andrea
  • Research group: Ethics, Justice and Economy
  • Year: 2016

DT 14/13 - La Economía de la Felicidad en América Latina

  • Author(s): Días, Joaquín
  • Research group: Ethics, Justice and Economy
  • Year: 2013

Interdisciplinary Group on Ethics, Justice, and Economics

  • Status: Activo
  • Members of the IECON: Leites, Martín - Rius, Andrés - Salas, Gonzalo - Rivero, Analía - Vigorito, Andrea
  • Years: 2005-actualidad

Longitudinal study of the Welfare in Uruguay

  • Status: Activo
  • Members of the IECON: Leites, Martín - Nicolau, Rodrigo - Rivero, Analía - Salas, Gonzalo - Vigorito, Andrea
  • Years: 2004-actualidad
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    • Ethics, Justice and Economy
    • Economic history
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    • Other research lines
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