9ª Conferência do Ciclo Ética Economia e Sociedade sobre o tema: Conversas sobre Ética, Moral e Trabalho
19 de Março - 18.00H
Católica Porto Business School
The object of exchange – work – is not a commodity but a meaningful
human
activity
The assumption of work as a disutility – quite the opposite of seeing work as a significant activity – forms the bedrock of standard labour economics.
Work is associated to disutility because it is supposed (Spencer, 2015): (1) to
be painful; (2) to be the opportunity cost of leisure; (3) to entail the exertion of
effort, for which humans have a natural aversion. Marx and other prominent
thinkers consider work to be valuable in itself, because humans can achieve selfrealization through work when it is performed in non-alienating contexts; on
the other hand, standard economics initially assumed that humans work for the
sole purpose of earning an income.
The assumption of work as a disutility – quite the opposite of seeing work as a significant activity – forms the bedrock of standard labour economics.
Work is associated to disutility because it is supposed (Spencer, 2015): (1) to
be painful; (2) to be the opportunity cost of leisure; (3) to entail the exertion of
effort, for which humans have a natural aversion. Marx and other prominent
thinkers consider work to be valuable in itself, because humans can achieve selfrealization through work when it is performed in non-alienating contexts; on
the other hand, standard economics initially assumed that humans work for the
sole purpose of earning an income.
LOPES, Helena. (2018). The moral dimensions of the employment relationship:
Institutional implications. Journal of
Institutional Economics, 14(1), 103-125.
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