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Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society)

Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society)

by VernonL.Smith (Author), VernonSmith (Author), Bart J . Wilson (Author), Bart J. Wilson (Author), Vernon L. Smith (Author), Vernon Smith (Author)

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Synopsis

While neo-classical analysis works well for studying impersonal exchange in markets, it fails to explain why people conduct themselves the way they do in their personal relationships with family, neighbors, and friends. In Humanomics, Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith and his long-time co-author Bart J. Wilson bring their study of economics full circle by returning to the founder of modern economics, Adam Smith. Sometime in the last 250 years, economists lost sight of the full range of human feeling, thinking, and knowing in everyday life. Smith and Wilson show how Adam Smith's model of sociality can re-humanize twenty-first century economics by undergirding it with sentiments, fellow feeling, and a sense of propriety - the stuff of which human relationships are built. Integrating insights from The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations into contemporary empirical analysis, this book shapes economic betterment as a science of human beings.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 236
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 14 Mar 2019
ISBN 10: 1316648818
ISBN 13: 9781316648810

Media Reviews
Advance praise: 'The new economics has arrived, a 'humanomics' that leaves the humans in. It banishes the sociopath known as Max U without repopulating the economy with idiots to be nudged by overlords. Humanomics combines the sacred and the profane, just as we do. It is a scientific, and ethical, triumph.' Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
Advance praise: 'There are really three significant treatises in this book: first, building on their famous experimental work, Vernon L. Smith and Bart J. Wilson offer an exciting, theoretical framework for economics and the human sciences more generally. They do so, second, by offering a 'sympathetic retrospective hearing' of Adam Smith's (other) great book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Third, they offer a new philosophy of economics that does justice to their own practice and invites us all of to become participants in what they call humanomics. There are big and bold ideas packed into this monograph; yet the writing is accessible and down to earth. It's the kind of book you will be happy to assign to students, and while teaching it you will discover lots of urgent, new research projects.' Eric Schliesser, University of Amsterdam
Author Bio
Vernon L. Smith is the George L. Argyros Endowed Chair in Economics and Finance at Chapman University, California. He was awarded the Noble Prize in Economic sciences in 2002 for, 'having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms'. He is a founding member of Chapman University's Economic Science Institute and Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. Bart J. Wilson is the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University, California. He is a founding member of the Economic Science Institute and founding member and Director of the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy. He has been co-teaching humanomics courses for nearly a decade with professors in the Departments of English and Philosophy.