Humane economics : essays in honor of Don Lavoie
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Humane economics : essays in honor of Don Lavoie
(New thinking in political economy)
Edward Elgar, c2006
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Note
"Bibliography of Don Lavoie's publications": p. 305-313
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Don Lavoie's published work encompasses a wide range of subjects - socialism, hermeneutics, information technology, and culture. The subjects appear unrelated, but a close examination of his research reveals an underlying unity of thought and an economics at sharp variance with the post World War II mainstream. The contributors to this volume explore the legacy of his scholarship and its implications for economics.
Three themes run throughout Don Lavoie's work and are explored in these chapters, the overarching one being the importance of social intelligence to economics. Second, and related to this, was his belief that certain institutions or practices are better at creating social intelligence than others - what might be termed the primacy of liberty or voluntaryism. Thirdly, he asserted that economics is more closely aligned with the humane disciplines than with the physical. As these essays make clear, if the next generation of economists does integrate economics with the humanities, some of the credit must go to Don Lavoie.
Students and scholars of economics, methodology, and the humanities more broadly will find this a provocative and enriching collection.
Table of Contents
Contents:
PART I: INTRODUCTORY
1. Humane Economics: An Introduction to the Work of Don Lavoie
Jack High
PART II: SOCIALIST CALCULATION
2. Calculation, Competition and Entrepreneurship
Israel M. Kirzner
3. Don Lavoie's Contributions to Comparative Economics
Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko
4. A Typology of Interventionist Dynamics
Robert L. Bradley Jr.
PART III: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
5. Institutions as Abstraction Boundaries
Bill Tulloh and Mark S. Miller
6. 'New' Collaborative Learning Environments: The Convergence of Hermeneutics and Hypertext
Virgil Henry Storr
PART IV: PHILOSOPHY
7. Hermeneutics and Liberty: Remembrance of Don Lavoie
G.B. Madison
8. Hermeneutics in Economics: On the Status of 'As-If' Functions
Wayne J. Froman
9. Humility and Truth in Economics
Deirdre McCloskey
PART V: CULTURAL STUDIES
10. The Development of Cultural Economy: Foundational Questions and Future Direction
Emily Chamlee-Wright
11. Innovation of Cardio-Imaging Technology at Hewlett-Packard and HP/Philips
Don E. Kash
PART VI: APPENDIX
12. Subjective Orientation and Objective Wealth: Entrepreneurship and the Convergence of Groupware and Hypertext Capabilities
Don Lavoie
Bibliography of Don Lavoie's Publications
Index
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