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Princeton university press has recently published cents and sensibility. Gary saul morson cents and sensibility seminary co. Arguing that adam smiths heirs include austen, chekhov, and tolstoy as much as keynes and friedman. Their intuition that there are enormous intellectual and moral gains to be had by increasing conversations between economists and humanities scholars is entirely correct, and that conversation should be encouraged both within the academy and. New book calls for putting more humanities into economics. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read cents and sensibility. Cents and sensibility a provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economicseconomists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. What economics can learn from the humanities by morson, gary saul, schapiro, morton owen isbn. 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.

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