Bart J. Wilson

Meaningful Economics (eBook, PDF)

Making the Science of Prosperity More Human

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Meaningful Economics, Bart J. Wilson argues that economic science is as much about purposes and human values as it is about incentives and self-interest. Moreover, he shows how the outcomes of our decisions (costs and benefits) and the origins of our decisions (motives and goals) can be understood in an integrated way. Including a novel theoretical framework, Meaningful Economics explains how three basic principles of economics--trade, specialization, and property--require meaning, values, and purpose.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197758168
• Artikelnr.: 72264962

Autorenporträt

Bart J. Wilson is Professor of Economics and Law and Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University. He is the author of The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human and co-author (with Vernon Smith) of Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century. He has also published widely in economics and general science journals, including the American Economic Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports, and Nature Human Behaviour.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Exordium
* Prologue
* Part I. Economics Has a Problem
* 1. Scarcity Isn't Fundamental; The Human Mind Is
* 2. Economics Needs Moral Sentiments
* 3. And to Distinguish Cause and Effect in Meaningful Human Action
* 4. With Universal Patterns of Human History
* 5. And With Human Customs and Practices
* Part II. A Framework for Studying the Origins and Outcomes of Human
Conduct
* 6. Human Conduct Is a Challenge to Study
* 7. Because There Are Four Ways to Explain Why We Do What We Do
* 8. The Mind Creates Human Customs
* Part III. Why Do Human Beings . . .
* 9. Why Do Human Beings Have the Custom of Property?
* 10. Why Do Human Beings Truck, Barter, and Exchange One Thing for
Another?
* 11. Why Do Human Beings Divide Their Labor?
* Part IV. The Mind Is the Answer to Old and New Questions
* 12. Property Rights Aren't Primary; Ideas Are
* 13. Preferences Do Not Explain Norms; Ideas Do
* 14. Materials Alone Can't Enrich Us; Ideas Plus Materials Can
* Author's Note
* References