Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9781107199378 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 234 str.

Vernon L. Smith; Bart J. Wilson

Opis

Articulates Adam Smith's model of human sociality, illustrated in experimental economic games that relate easily to business and everyday life.

Recenzje

'… the authors of the book are world-class specialists, who 'have been reading and citing Adam Smith's 1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments for well in excess of a decade' … one simply cannot miss reading it.' Jacek Klich, Central Banking Journal

Spis treści

1. Humanomics spans the two worlds of Adam Smith: sociality and economy; 2. Words and meaning in Adam Smith's world; 3. Conduct in the social universe; 4. Frank Knight preemptively settles the horse race; 5. Axioms and principles for understanding human conduct; 6. Propositions predicting context-specific action; 7. Propriety and sympathy in a rule-governed order; 8. Trust game discoveries; 9. The ultimatum game as involuntary extortion; 10. Designing, predicting, and evaluating new trust games; 11. Reconsidering the formal structure of traditional game theory; 12. Narratives in and about experimental economics; 13. Adam Smith's program for the study of human socio-economic betterment: from beneficence and justice to the Wealth of Nations.