Format:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415202190
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9780203457689
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Social Economics Series
Content:
The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this hugely important concept without questioning how we theorise it. This superb book remedies this oversight
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1 Framing the issues -- 1.1 Modernism as dualism: origins of the modernist concept of the individual -- 1.2 Contemporary critiques of the modernist conception of the individual -- 1.3 Individuals in economics -- 1.4 Orthodox economics and heterodox economics -- 1.5 Plan of this work -- PART I Orthodox economics -- 2 The atomistic individual -- 2.1 Locke's legacy -- 2.2 The evolution of the atomistic individual conception -- 2.3 The requirements of atomism -- 2.4 Methodological individualism and reductionism: a last-ditch defense? -- 2.5 Game theory to the rescue? -- 2.6 What kind of individual? -- 3 Reidentification: preferences and human capital -- 3.1 The standard pure preferences view of the individual -- 3.2 Reidentification à la Locke and in the pure preferences account -- 3.3 Locke's critics -- 3.4 The Butler-Hume critique applied to the neoclassical view -- 3.5 The time allocation conception of the individual -- 3.6 New problems -- 3.7 Individuation reconsidered -- 4 Individuation: multiple selves -- 4.1 Single versus multiple utility functions -- 4.2 Internal preference structures -- 4.3 Endogenously changing preferences -- 4.4 A unity of selves or a plurality of selves? -- 5 After the fall: the machinery of choice -- 5.1 Mind as a computer -- 5.2 Economics as cognitive science -- 5.3 After the fall -- PART II Heterodox economics -- 6 The embedded individual -- 6.1 The legacy of Marx and Durkheim -- 6.2 Social theory's structure-agency models of the individual and society -- 6.3 Social psychology's self-referent behavior and individual self-concept -- 6.4 The socially embedded individual conception in economics -- 6.5 The socially embedded individual conception -- 7 Individuation: collective intentionality -- 7.1 Collective intentionality analysis
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7.2 Collective intentionality and the structure-agent framework -- 7.3 A revised view of individual economic behavior -- 7.4 The individuation of embedded individuals -- 7.5 Individuation in the atomistic and socially embedded individual conceptions -- 8 Reidentification: capabilities -- 8.1 Sen's capability framework -- 8.2 The capability framework applied to the reidentification of embedded individuals -- 8.3 The embedded individual conception as an ideal conception -- 8.4 Sen's thinking about the individual versus the embedded individual conception -- 8.5 Concluding remark on the atomistic and embedded individual conceptions -- 9 Before the fall: value in economics -- 9.1 Facts and values -- 9.2 Welfarism, utilitarianism, and the atomistic individual conception -- 9.3 Normative reasoning and the socially embedded individual conception -- 9.4 Individual identity as a normative concern -- 9.5 A classical world -- 10 Revisiting the issues -- 10.1 Ontology in economics -- 10.2 Individual identity in economics and personal identity -- 10.3 Two historical traditions -- 10.4 Significance -- Notes -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Davis, John B. The Theory of the Individual in Economics Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415202190
Language:
English
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