Cents and Sensibility (eBook)

What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities

Gary Saul Morson, Morton Schapiro (Autoren)

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2018
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18441-8 (ISBN)

Infos

In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam Smith’s heirs include Austen, Chekhov, and Tolstoy as much as Keynes and Friedman, Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro trace the connection between Adam Smith’s great classic, The Wealth of Nations, and his less celebrated book on ethics, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The authors contend that a few decades later, Jane Austen invented her groundbreaking method of novelistic narration in order to give life to the empathy that Smith believed essential to humanity. More than anyone, the great writers can offer economists something they need—a richer appreciation of behavior, ethics, culture, and narrative. Original, provocative, and inspiring, Cents and Sensibility demonstrates the benefits of a dialogue between economics and the humanities and also shows how looking at real-world problems can revitalize the study of literature itself. Featuring a new preface, this book brings economics back to its place in the human conversation.

Autor

Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University. Morton Schapiro is the president of Northwestern University and a professor of economics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Academic tenure • adjunct professor • aphorism • Behavioral Economics • Calculation • Case study • casuistry • Causality • Commodity • Consideration • Contingency (Philosophy) • counterexample • Criticism • Customer • developed country • Donor • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic History • economic problem • Economics • economist • Ethical decision • ethics • Explanation • Faculty (academic staff) • fertility • George Eliot • Good and evil • human behavior • Ideology • income • Ingenuity • Institution • Irony • Irrationality • Isaiah Berlin • Jane Austen • Katie Martin • Lecture • Leo Tolstoy • Liberal arts education • Linguistics • Literary criticism • Literature • Mainstream economics • Make a Difference • Mikhail Bakhtin • Morality • narrative • Neoclassical Economics • Nicomachean Ethics • Notes From Underground • novelist • Oppression • Paul Krugman • Pawnbroker • Philosopher • Physics envy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Prediction • Princeton University Press • Professor • Psychology • Racism • Random House • Rational Choice Theory • reason • Recession • Scarcity • Science • Selective school • self-deception • Self-Interest • self-love • skepticism • social issue • Social Science • Sociocultural evolution • Sociology • Stephen Jay Gould • Stephen Toulmin • Subsidy • Suffering • Superiority (short story) • Supply (economics) • Technology • theory • The Theory of Moral Sentiments • The Wall Street journal • The Wealth of Nations • Thought • Thought experiment • Trade-off • treatise • Utilitarianism • Value (ethics) • Wealth
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18441-0 / 0691184410
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18441-8 / 9780691184418