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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Deirdre Nansen McCloskeyPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.367kg ISBN: 9780226765921ISBN 10: 022676592 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 14 May 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface Part I. The Proposal Chapter 1. Humanomics and Liberty Promise Better Economic Science Chapter 2. Adam Smith Practiced Humanomics, and So Should We Chapter 3. Economic History Illustrates the Problems with Nonhumanomics Chapter 4. An Economic Science Needs the Humanities Chapter 5. It’s Merely a Matter of Common Sense and Intellectual Free Trade Chapter 6. After All, Sweet Talk Rules a Free Economy Chapter 7. Therefore We Should Walk on Both Feet, Like Ludwig Lachmann Chapter 8. That Is, Economics Needs Theories of Human Minds beyond Behaviorism Part II. The Killer App Chapter 9. The Killer App of Humanomics Is the Evidence That the Great Enrichment Came from Ethics and Rhetoric Chapter 10. The Dignity of Liberalism Did It Chapter 11. Ideas, Not Incentives, Underlie It Chapter 12. Even as to Time and Location Chapter 13. The Word’s the Thing Part III. The Doubts Chapter 14. Doubts by Analytic Philosophers about the Killer App Are Not Persuasive Chapter 15. Nor by Sociologists or Political Philosophers Chapter 16. Nor Even by Economic Historians Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsThis book presents a series of arguments for improving academic enquiry through the lens of 'humanomics.' For economists, or other academics, who haven't come across humanomics before, it is in essence a combination of the rigorous tools of economics with more human elements such as the critical perspectives that are often found in the humanities. Pioneers of this approach include 'the father of economics, ' Adam Smith, Nobel prizewinner Vernon Smith and experimental economist Bart Wilson. . . McCloskey presents compelling arguments that economic agents are not merely attempting to maximise their utility, but are influenced by other factors such as the power of words. -- Times Higher Education How is economic science going to progress? By embracing ethics, the humanities, and language as part of the tool kit alongside mathematics--and recognizing that economists should never try to be social engineers because they are part of the societies they study. McCloskey makes a compelling case for economics for humans--and offers some hope that the discipline is tilting in that direction. --Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge This new book quite seriously advances the continuing conversation in humanomics. It discovers Adam Smith and resumes a path that McCloskey has so magnificently helped to reinvigorate in the last half century. --Vernon Smith, Chapman University and 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics Can we have economic thought that focuses on people and tries to understand rather than merely observe? Rejecting contemporary trends, McCloskey paves the way to an economics dedicated to the betterment of human lives. -- The Bookseller Deirdre Nansen McCloskey latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more human science Deirdre Nansen McCloskey latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more human science Can we have economic thought that focuses on people and tries to understand rather than merely observe? Rejecting contemporary trends, McCloskey paves the way to an economics dedicated to the betterment of human lives. * The Bookseller * This new book quite seriously advances the continuing conversation in humanomics. It discovers Adam Smith and resumes a path that McCloskey has so magnificently helped to reinvigorate in the last half century. -- Vernon Smith, Chapman University and 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics How is economic science going to progress? By embracing ethics, the humanities, and language as part of the tool kit alongside mathematics-and recognizing that economists should never try to be social engineers because they are part of the societies they study. McCloskey makes a compelling case for economics for humans-and offers some hope that the discipline is tilting in that direction. -- Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge This book presents a series of arguments for improving academic enquiry through the lens of 'humanomics.' For economists, or other academics, who haven't come across humanomics before, it is in essence a combination of the rigorous tools of economics with more human elements such as the critical perspectives that are often found in the humanities. Pioneers of this approach include 'the father of economics,' Adam Smith, Nobel prizewinner Vernon Smith and experimental economist Bart Wilson. . . McCloskey presents compelling arguments that economic agents are not merely attempting to maximise their utility, but are influenced by other factors such as the power of words. * Times Higher Education * Best Summer Books of 2021 What economics needs to fulfil its unparalleled potential as the premier science of human progress, [McCloskey] insists, is the rediscovery of its origins as the discipline that successfully marries the methods of the sciences and the humanities. In Bettering Humanomics, a sparkling cameo of a book, she offers a summary of this, her life-long project. The result is a richly allusive account of what such a combination - 'humanomics', as she calls it - looks like, and why it offers a better guide to understanding where prosperity ultimately comes from and what policymakers can do to help it on its way. * Financial Times * Deirdre Nansen McCloskey latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more human science Can we have economic thought that focuses on people and tries to understand rather than merely observe? Rejecting contemporary trends, McCloskey paves the way to an economics dedicated to the betterment of human lives. -- The Bookseller Deirdre Nansen McCloskey latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more human science Author InformationDeirdre Nansen McCloskey is distinguished professor emerita of economics and of history and professor emerita of English and of communication, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of two dozen books including Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, Bourgeois Equality, Crossing: A Transgender Memoir, and Economical Writing. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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