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A tempered and humane economy : markets, families, and behavioral economics / Jannett Highfill and Patricia Podd Webber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Highfill, Jannett K., author.
- Webber, Patricia Podd, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families.
- Economics--Psychological aspects.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <span><span>This book challenges economists to bring the insights of behavioral economics into their reflections on the macroeconomy as well as on individual decision-making and it challenges everyone, economist and layperson alike, to bring the wisdom they learn from their families out into the larger economic world. </span></span>
- Contents:
- Each person, each family
- The wisdom of families
- Elana's family network
- It's complicated, investing in yourself
- "It's not fair"
- Talk the walk
- What's luck got to do with it?
- The wisdom of families : supporting each other's decisions
- The big picture : investment decisions in context
- The wisdom of families : democracy is learned at home
- Investing in strangers
- The wisdom of families' : the most important investment
- Education : it's a social contract
- Mother jones would be pretty happy
- The best nets are more holes than rope
- Thinking harder : does "help" really help?
- The wisdom of families : good intentions and unintended consequences
- Tough love for the poor
- Tough love for the rich
- The wisdom of families : avoiding double standards
- Prosperity is an enormous achievement
- Warts and all, we are a big rich country
- Inclusive vs. extractive institutions : thinking globally
- When markets produce
- Markets and meaningful work
- Tempering markets with government policy
- The government we make
- When the challenge is healthcare
- Looking to the future
- The wisdom of families : challenge and aspiration
- Tempered optimism, humane prosperity
- Appendix 1: when you have enough to share, share wisely
- Appendix 2: concrete suggestions for sharing
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-9455-0
- 0-7391-9454-2
- OCLC:
- 899158532
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