Meaningful economics : making the science of prosperity more human /
"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...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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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.