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  title info:
    title: Meaningful economics
    sub title: making the science of prosperity more human
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Bart J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xx, 240 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: "Economics has a problem. It cannot distinguish the causes of human action from the consequences of human action. It models representations of optimal agents, not flesh-and-blood human beings in ordinary life. Meaningful Economics is about understanding the principles of economics-the exchange of goods and services, the specialization that trade makes possible, and the system of property that undergirds both-in their origins and outcomes rather than exclusively in their consequences. It explains the roots of conduct, and not merely its economic effects, by going to the human capacity for moral sentiments that prompt human beings to act. The book is about what makes meaningfulness the very core of economics. You read that correctly. Meaning and value and purpose have everything to do with traditional talk of economics. Economic science, including, behavioral economics, unintentionally, proceeds as if the human mind does not matter. The origins of our actions-ideas-do indeed matter. They make us human. They make us beings who imagine our futures and who use language to achieve what we wish for. Economics and ethics are, in fact, two sides of the same coin, and, moreover, we can study both sides at the same time. We can study the costs and benefits of our decisions and our motives and goals in an integrated, humanly way. The book builds a science of economics that retains the human mind"--
  table of contents: Scarcity isn't fundamental; the human mind Is -- Economics needs moral sentiments -- And to distinguish cause and effect in meaningful human action -- With universal patterns of human history -- And with human customs and practices -- Human conduct is a challenge to study -- Because there are four ways to explain why we do what we do -- The mind creates human customs -- Why do human beings have the custom of property? -- Why do human beings truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another? -- Why do human beings divide their labor? -- Property rights aren't primary; ideas are -- Preferences do not explain norms; ideas do -- Materials alone can't enrich us; ideas plus materials can.
  note: Bart J. Wilson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Economics
    topic: Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Economics
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Économie politique
    topic: Aspect psychologique
  subject:
    topic: Économie politique
  subject:
    topic: economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Theory
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  classification: HM548 .W55 2024
  classification: 306.3
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    title info:
      title: Meaningful economics
    name:
      name part: Wilson, Bart J.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024038924
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241020
    record change date: 20260319205119.1
    record identifier: in00005727296
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng