Zasada ostrożności, czyli heurystyka strachu oraz heurystyka odwagi w kontekście polityki gospodarczej

• Authors: Grzegorz M. Malinowski

Title variants

EN

Precautionary principle: heuristics of fear and heuristics of courage in the context of political economy

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Artykuł dotyczy zasady ostrożności. Celem tekstu jest jej zdefiniowanie, interpretacja oraz powiązanie z polityką gospodarczą. Punktem wyjścia jest stwierdzenie istnienia niepewności sensu largo oraz naukowej niepewności sensu stricte. Te elementy sprawiają, że we współczesnej, coraz bardziej zglobalizowanej gospodarce pewne zagrożenia nabierają charakteru systemowego. Konieczne jest unikanie tego rodzaju niebezpieczeństw, jednak istniejące narzędzia analityczne konstruowane w ramach teorii decyzji czy zarządzania ryzykiem są do tego niewystarczające. Stwarza to przestrzeń dla zasady ostrożności, która w zależności od specyfiki sytuacji decyzyjnej przybiera postać heurystyki strachu bądź heurystyki odwagi.

EN

The main goal of the article is to deliver a definition, interpretation and a potential application of precautionary principle in the field of political economy. Uncertainty in general, and scientific uncertainty in particular make a contemporary, increasingly globalized economy much more vulnerable. On the top of that, the very nature of certain risks is changing from local to systemic. It is necessarry to avoid such threats, but the existing risk management tools are insuficient and/ or inadequate to do so. Such a situation creates a potencial space for a concept of precautionary principle which, depending on the nature of decision, manifest itself as a heuristics of fear or as a heuristics of courage.

Keywords

PL

Zasada ostrożności; naukowa niepewność; teoria decyzji; zarządzanie ryzykiem; heurystyki

EN

Precautionary principle; scientific uncertainty; decision theory; risk management; heuristics

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk / Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Prakseologia
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 160
• Pages: 291-332

Contributors

author

Grzegorz M. Malinowski

• Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego

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