David Levy

The economic ideas of ordinary people (Routledge Revivals)

From preferences to trade

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Human actions result from a compound of animal desires, constraints and the words we use to talk about desires and constraints. Modern economics has developed complex theories to explain the operation of both desires and constraints but has neglected the language people use when they talk about them. First published in 1992, The Economic Ideas of Ordinary People discusses how we talk about our economic activitiees and how our talk influences our action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780415614405
• ISBN-10: 0415614406
• Artikelnr.: 36814480

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Introduction and background 1. Why worry about the economic ideas of
ordinary people? Part II The demand for ideas 2. Adam Smith and the Texas
A&M rats 3. Utility-enhancing consumption constraints 4. Ethics and the
basics of logic Part III The supply of ideas 5. Adam Smith's 'natural law'
and contractual society 6. Who monitors the monitors? with Susan Feigenbaum
7. Property, justice and judgement Part IV Equilibrium ideas 8. Rational
choice inm the Homeric epics 9. The statistical basis of Athenian and
American constitutional theory 10. Fame and the supply of heroics Part V A
competitive episode: the Malthusian controversy 11. Ricardo and the iron
law 12. Some normative aspects of the Malthusian controversy 13.
Libertarian communists, Malthusians and J. S. Mill - who is both Part IV
Objections and applications 14. Must one believe to obey 15. S. T.
Coleridge replies to Adam Smith's 'pernicious opinion' 16. The
impossibility of a complete methadological individualist 17. Spinoza and
the cost of thinking 18. The myth of monopoly