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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139781316648810
eBay Product ID (ePID)25046684776
Product Key Features
Number of Pages234 Pages
Publication NameHumanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEconomics
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
AuthorBart J. Wilson, Vernon L. Smith
SeriesCambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
Dimensions
Item Height228 mm
Item Weight340 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorVernon L. Smith, Bart J. Wilson