Vernon L. Smith, Bart J. Wilson

Humanomics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Articulates Adam Smith's model of human sociality, illustrated in experimental economic games that relate easily to business and everyday life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781107199378
• ISBN-10: 1107199379
• Artikelnr.: 52420606

Autorenporträt

Vernon L. Smith is the George L. Argyros Endowed Chair in Economics and Finance at Chapman University, California. He was awarded the Noble Prize in Economic sciences in 2002 for, 'having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms'. He is a founding member of Chapman University's Economic Science Institute and Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Humanomics spans the two worlds of Adam Smith: sociality and economy
2. Words and meaning in Adam Smith's world
3. Conduct in the social universe
4. Frank Knight preemptively settles the horse race
5. Axioms and principles for understanding human conduct
6. Propositions predicting context-specific action
7. Propriety and sympathy in a rule-governed order
8. Trust game discoveries
9. The ultimatum game as involuntary extortion
10. Designing, predicting, and evaluating new trust games
11. Reconsidering the formal structure of traditional game theory
12. Narratives in and about experimental economics
13. Adam Smith's program for the study of human socio-economic betterment: from beneficence and justice to the Wealth of Nations.