The Communal Welfare as an alternative to the failure of the neoclassical Welfare concept.

MACERI, SANDRA.

Praga

Congreso; Eighth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences; 2013

CHARLES UNIVERSITY PRAGUE

The paper proposes the change from the utilitarian-individualist neoclassical paradigm, which leaves out certain communities, to the paradigm of "community welfare", which includes all types of society. Current researches on the socio-economy have highlighted need to review the concept of the "utilitarian-individual" welfare. With the epistemological basis of a conciliatory synthesis, Amartya Sen provides the indispensable foundation for the success of the "community welfare" paradigm. In this well-being are essential the informational pluralism, the development of capabilities and preferences not as purely personal but as viable only if they include the other´s desire. Furthermore, who the other is, is a matter which is called "the problem of extensionality of the others". According to Sen, this implies taking a position on social and national identity. The thesis in favor of multiple and acquired identities are the foundation of the community welfare, which is positioned as the ultimate goal of the economy and the politics. The change from the Neoclassical Paradigm to the ethical economy results not only feasible but also fruitful because of the conception of the "anti-individualistic" social realities.