The romantic economist : imagination in economics /
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| Author / Creator: | Bronk, Richard. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | xviii, 382 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8208779 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Preface to The Romantic Economist
- 1. The Romantic and imaginative aspects of economics
- 2. Romantic Economist: neither revolutionary nor mainstream
- 3. Using the history of ideas
- 4. Wordsworth and Marshall
- 5. The structuring role of metaphor
- 6. Romantic economics prefigured
- Part I. The Prelude: The Romantic Economist and the History of Ideas
- 2. The great divide
- 1. Mill on Bentham and Coleridge
- 2. Nervous breakdown of an economist
- 3. The philosophy and history of two cultures
- 4. Mill and a bridge too short
- 3. Debates within political economy
- 1. Smith and the emergence of a discipline
- 2. Recurring disagreements
- 3. The triumph of social physics and Rational Choice
- 4. Lessons from Romanticism
- 1. Interdependent themes and lessons
- 2. Unity and fragments
- Part II. Fragments of Unity: Romantic Economics in Practice
- 5. Using organic metaphors in economics
- 1. Economic models of interdependence and growth
- 2. Complexity Theory: moving towards a new template
- 3. The lessons of organicism
- 4. Some applications of the organic metaphor
- 6. Economics and the nation state
- 1. National versus universal solutions
- 2. Early advocates of national economics
- 3. Varieties of Capitalism and beyond
- 4. Globalisation and national economics
- 7. Incommensurable values
- 1. No single scale of value
- 2. The measurement and ethical definition of policy success
- 3. Consistency and indifference
- 8. Imagination and creativity in markets
- 1. The nature of imagination
- 2. The economy as creative process
- 3. Imagination and the microfoundations of economics
- 9. Homo romanticus and other homines
- 1. Homo economicus through thick and thin
- 2. Homo economicus in symbiosis with homo romanticus
- 3. Homo sociologicus: cohabiting with cousins
- 4. The role of sentiment and sympathy
- 5. 'Superman' and self-creation in economics
- 10. Imagination and perspective in economics
- 1. After Kant: a disconcerting or liberating philosophy?
- 2. Reading the interpretations that structure social reality
- 3. Kuhn, imagination and the nature of paradigms
- 4. The creative use of metaphor
- 5. Romantic pointers to best research practice
- 11. The Romantic Economist: conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index