Cents and sensibility : what economics can learn from the humanities /

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Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities, especially the study of literature, offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Morson, Gary Saul, 1948- (Author), Schapiro, Morton Owen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Economics > Psychological aspects.
Économie politique > Aspect moral.
Économie politique > Aspect psychologique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Education.
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects
Economics > Psychological aspects
Wirtschaftspolitik
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Literaturanthropologie
Verhaltensökonomie
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Table of Contents:
  • Spotting the spoof: the value of telling stories out of (and in) school
  • A slow walk to judgment: hedgehogs and foxes, wisdom and prediction
  • The power and limits of the economic approach: case study 1- how to improve American higher education
  • Love is in the air ... or at least in the error term: case study 2-what economists can and cannot teach us about the family
  • The ultimate question: case study 3- why do some countries develop faster than others? Economics, culture and institutions
  • The best of the humanities
  • De-hedgehogizing Adam Smith: the economics that might be
  • Humanomics: a dialogue of disciplines.

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