The economic ideas of ordinary people : from preferences to trade
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The economic ideas of ordinary people : from preferences to trade
Routledge, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-331) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Human actions result from a compound of animal desires, constraints and the words we use to talk about them. Modern economics has developed complex theories to explain the operation of both desires and constraints, but has neglected the language used when discussing them. "The Economics of Ordinary People" discusses how we talk about our economic activities and how our talk influences our action. Such fundamental questions as why people trade, or why they contribute to public finances when they know that in itself their contribution will not be decisive, can be transformed if what people say about their decisions is taken into account. The approval or disapproval of one's peers act as powerful motive forces. In stressing the importance of these forms of communication, Levy sides with the classical Scottish political economists (whose work he discusses at some length) and against the behavioural psychologists. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of economics.
目次
1. Why worry about the economic ideas of ordinary people? Part I: Demand for Ideas 2. Adam Smith and the Texas A&M Rats 3. Utility-Enhancing Consumption Constraints 4. Logic and the Basis of Ethics Part II: Supply of Ideas 5. Natural Law and Contractual Society 6. Who Monitors the Monitors? 7. Property, Justice and Judgement Part III: Equilibrium Ideas 8. Rational Choice in Homer 9. The Statistical Basis of the Athenian and American Constitutions 10. Fame and the Supply of Heroics Part IV: A Competitive Episode 11. Ricardo and the Iron Law 12. Some Normative Aspects of the Malthusian Controversy 13. J.S. Mill - Malthusian and Libertarian Communist Part V: Objections and Aplications 14. Must we Believe to Obey 15. Coleridge Responds to Adam Smith 16. The Impossibility of a Methodological Individualist 17. Spinoza and the Cost of Thinking 18. The Myth of Monopoly.
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