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Economics-Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (331 pages) |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Chapter 1 Spotting the Spoof: The Value of Telling Stories Out of (and in) School -- Twin Crises -- The Dehumanities -- Humanomics -- A Return to the "Real" Adam Smith -- The Value of Telling Stories Out of (and in) School -- Two Stories -- Chapter 2 A Slow Walk to Judgment: Hedgehogs and Foxes, Wisdom and Prediction -- Chapter 3 The Power and Limits of the Economic Approach: Case Study 1-How to Improve American Higher Education -- Enrollment Management -- Who Teaches Undergraduates? -- Data Reporting -- The Allocation of State Operating Subsidies -- The Federal Interest in Enrollment, Completion, and Matching -- Chapter 4 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 -- Do Preferences Change? -- The Economics of the Intimate -- Children -- Crime and Punishment -- Three Responses to the Economic Model -- Irrationality of the Second Order -- Selling Kidneys -- A Foxy Approach to Economic Demography -- Chapter 5 The Ultimate Question: Case Study 3-Why Do Some Countries Develop Faster Than Others? Economics, Culture, and Institutions -- The Hedgehog of Geography -- Foxy and Other Economists -- The Harm That Hedgehogs Do -- Chapter 6 The Best of the Humanities -- Justifying the Humanities -- The Humanities as Often Taught -- Why Not Just Read SparkNotes? -- Overcoming the Human -- Character and Nanocharacter -- Ethics and Stories -- Experience from Within -- Globalization -- World Literature and the Curriculum -- Writing and Argument -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 De-hedgehogizing Adam Smith: The Economics That Might Be -- Sympathy and Empathy -- Theory as Anti-Theory -- Smith the Novelist -- Negative Pluralism -- Rethinking the Invisible Hand. |
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What Humanists Can Learn from Economists -- Humanism and Behavioral Economics -- Chapter 8 Humanomics: A Dialogue of Disciplines -- Index. |
| Note |
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Schapiro, Morton Owen, author.
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| ISBN |
9780691184418 (electronic bk.) |
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