Beyond the invisible hand : groundwork for a new economics /

One of the central tenets of mainstream economics is Adam Smith's proposition that, given certain conditions, self-interested behavior by individuals leads them to the social good, almost as if orchestrated by an invisible hand. This deep insight has, over the past two centuries, been taken out...

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Main Author: Basu, Kaushik (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 In Praise of Dissent -- Discontent and Discourse -- Smith's Myth -- The Lay of the Land -- On Understanding -- Chapter 2 The Theory of the Invisible Hand -- Competition and Social Welfare -- The Standard Critiques -- Chapter 3 The Limits of Orthodoxy -- The Dual Interpretation -- Evolving Feasible Set -- Evolving Preference -- Social Norms and Culture -- A Comment on Incentive Compatibility -- On Methodological Individualism -- On Knowledge -- Chapter 4 The Economy according to Law -- Kafka's Invisible Hand -- Law's Economy: The Standard View -- The Law as Focal Point -- Implications of the Focal View of Law -- A Game-Theoretic Illustration of Law as Focal Point -- A Research Agenda -- Chapter 5 Markets and Discrimination -- Do Free Markets Reduce Discrimination? -- The Literature -- The Self-Reinforcement of Productivity -- The Entrepreneur -- Toward a New Theoretical Model -- Appendix: Aptitude Test Administered to Slum Children at Anandan in Calcutta -- Chapter 6 The Chemistry of Groups -- Identity and Methodological Individualism -- The Ingredients of Theory -- Altruism, Trust, and Development -- The Janus Face of In-group Altruism -- The Malignancy of Identity -- Chapter 7 Contract, Coercion, and Intervention -- Principle of Free Contract -- Coercion and Voluntariness -- The Large Numbers Argument -- Acts and Rules -- Multiple Equilibria -- Domains of Intervention -- Chapter 8 Poverty, Inequality, and Globalization -- Governance and the Globe -- Inequality -- Some Facts of Globalization -- Some Analytics of Globalization -- Inequality and Poverty: The Quintile Axiom -- Poverty-Minimizing Inequality, with or without Globalization -- Policy Implications -- Chapter 9 Globalization and the Retreat of Democracy -- Democracy in Deficit -- Globalization and Influence -- Dollarization and Democracy -- Democratic Global Institutions -- Chapter 10 What Is to Be Done? -- Interpreting the World and Changing It -- The 'Environmental Case' against Inequality -- Despair and Hope -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z. 
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