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Gary Saul Morson

Cents and Sensibility

What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities

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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 groun… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Schapiro, Morton
  • ISBN: 978-0-691-18322-0
  • EAN: 9780691183220
  • Produktnummer: 26367335
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.0 cm 393 g
  • Gewicht: 393

Über den 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.

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