Cents and Sensibility
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Cents and Sensibility

What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities

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Cents and Sensibility

What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780691183220
eBook ISBN
9780691184418
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Business Education
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface to the Paperback Edition
  8. Chapter 1: Spotting the Spoof: The Value of Telling Stories Out of (and in) School
  9. Chapter 2: A Slow Walk to Judgment: Hedgehogs and Foxes, Wisdom and Prediction
  10. Chapter 3: The Power and Limits of the Economic Approach: Case Study 1—How to Improve American Higher Education
  11. Chapter 4: Love Is in the Air … or at Least in the Error Term: Case Study 2—What Economists Can and Cannot Teach Us about the Family
  12. Chapter 5: The Ultimate Question: Case Study 3—Why Do Some Countries Develop Faster Than Others? Economics, Culture, and Institutions
  13. Chapter 6: The Best of the Humanities
  14. Chapter 7: De-hedgehogizing Adam Smith: The Economics That Might Be
  15. Chapter 8: Humanomics: A Dialogue of Disciplines
  16. Index