The Theory of the Individual in Economics: Identity and Value
- ISBN-10
- 1134633467
- ISBN-13
- 9781134633463
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-04-15
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- John B Davis
Description
The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. All strands of thought at heart come down to a particular theory of the individual. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this hugely important concept without questioning how we theorise it. This superb book remedies this oversight. The new approach put forward by Davis is to pay more attention to what moral philosophy may offer us in the study of personal identity, self consciousness and will. This crosses the traditional boundaries of economics and will shed new light on the distinction between positive and normative analysis in economics. With both heterodox and orthodox economics receiving a thorough analysis from Davis, this book is at once inclusive and revealing.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2003-03-20
- 225 pages
- Paperback
- Routledge
Similar books
-
A Theory of Individual Behavior
By Robert WichersThe book contains a short review of mathematical models and discussion of received microeconomic theory, as well as summaries at the ends of chapters and many examples and illustrations.
-
Individuals and Identity in Economics
By John B. DavisThis book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral economics, experimental economics, social preferences approaches, game theory, neuroeconomics, ...
-
Individuals and Identity in Economics
By John B. DavisThis book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral economics, experimental economics, social preferences approaches, game theory, neuroeconomics, ...
-
A Theory of the Individual for Economic Analysis
By Jacques LesourneA Theory of the Individual for Economic Analysis
-
Economics and the Theory of Games
By Fernando Vega-RedondoSample Text
-
Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory of Institutions
By H. Peyton YoungThe book relies on new results in evolutionary game theory and stochastic dynamical systems theory, many of them originated by the author.
-
Complex Economics: Individual and Collective Rationality
By Alan KirmanIn Figures 3.26a and 3.26b we show the Lorenz curve for the two extreme cases (the least concentrated in the left panel and the most concentrated in the right one). To have a global picture of the market we made a smoothed (Gaussian ...
-
Social Choice and Individual Values: Third Edition
By Kenneth J. ArrowThis new edition, including a new foreword by Nobel laureate Eric Maskin, reintroduces Arrow's seminal book to a new generation of students and researchers.
-
Social Choice and Individual Values
By Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Yale College, Connecticut). - Department of Economics. - Cowles Foundation for Research in EconomicsThe literature on the theory of social choice has grown considerably beyond the few items in existence at the time the first edition of this book appeared in 1951.
-
Beyond Individual Choice: Teams and Frames in Game Theory
By Michael BacharachIn any two-player game, if the players deliberate to a Nash equilibrium (x,y) of that game, there is a shared intention that Z, where Z is the outcome of (x,y). (I shall explain why in the next paragraph.) Conversely, in any two-player ...