Benjamin T. Tolosa, Jr.

POLITICAL-ECONOMIC IDEOLOGIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

THE NEED FOR A COMPARATIVE POLITICAL-ECONOMICAL FRAMEWORK

COMPETING POLITICAL-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS

IDEOLOGIES

AND

THEIR

SOCIAL

JUSTICE

TRENDS IN POLITICAL-ECONOMIC THINKING ON SOCIAL JUSTICE IN POST-FEBRUARY 1986 PHILIPPINES

CONCLUSION

NOTES 1. By "political-economic" approach, I mean the use of a general framework which takes as starting point the integral link between wealth and power; between economic and political relations. 2. Leon Silk, The Economists (New York: Basic Books, 1976), p. 243; Dudley Seers, "The Limitations of the Special Case," Bulletin of the Oxford Institute of Economics and Statistics, 25 (no. 2; May, 1963), p. 80. 3. Cf. Joe Holland and Peter Henriot, Social Analysis (Washington, D.C.: Center of Concern, 1983). 4. Cf. Ken Cole, John Cameron and Chris Edwards, Why Economists Disagree (London: Longman Group Ltd., 1983) for an example of a textbook which takes a comparative approach to economic theory.

5. Adam Przeworski, "Social Democracy as a Historical Phenomenon," New Left Review, no. 122 (July-August, 1980). 6. Ruth Levitas, ed. The Ideology of the New Right (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1986). 7. Cf. Charles Wilber and Kenneth Jameson, "Paradigms of Economic Development and Beyond" in Charles Wilber, ed., The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment (New York: Random House, 1984) for a discussion of competing perspectives in development studies. 8. The Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines, 1986, Article II, section 10. 9. Ibid., Article II, section 18. 10. Ibid. 11. Ibid., Article XII, section 6. 12. Ibid. 13. Ibid., Article XII, section 1. 14. Cf. Benjamin T. Tolosa, Jr., "Constraints on Democratic Consolidation and the Economic Ideology of the Aquino Government," Budhi Papers (no. 8; 1987). 15. Wilber and Jameson, pp. 20-23. 16. Cf. Francisco Nemenzo, "Commentary," Pulso, 1 (no. 2; 1985), 289-97.