Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities

by Morton Schapiro and Gary Saul Morson

Book Overview

A provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economics

Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But 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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069117668X
• ISBN13: 9780691176680
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"