{"product_id":"cents-and-sensibility-9780691176680","title":"Cents and Sensibility","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Focusing mostly on integrating exposure to great realist novels (such as Anna Karenina, Middlemarch, and War and Peace) into economics education, the authors use three case studies on, respectively, higher education, the family, and the economic development of nations to make an insightful and compelling argument. Morson and Schapiro succeed in finding new ways of thinking about big issues as well as new ways to read classic novels... The case studies read like popular nonfiction. There's immense joy to be found throughout this work on thinking with creativity and passion.\"--Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  1 Spotting the Spoof: The Value of Telling Stories Out of (and in) School 1  Twin Crises 4  The Dehumanities 5  Humanomics 8  A Return to the \"Real\" Adam Smith 18  The Value of Telling Stories Out of (and in) School 20  Two Stories 23  2 A Slow Walk to Judgment: Hedgehogs and Foxes, Wisdom and Prediction 46  3 The Power and Limits of the Economic Approach: Case Study 1-How to Improve American Higher Education 64  Enrollment Management 65  Who Teaches Undergraduates? 80  Data Reporting 87  The Allocation of State Operating Subsidies 98  The Federal Interest in Enrollment, Completion, and Matching 105  4 Love Is in the Air ... or at Least in the Error Term: Case Study 2-What Economists Can and Cannot Teach Us about the Family 119  Do Preferences Change? 126  The Economics of the Intimate 129  Children 138  Crime and Punishment 144  Three Responses to the Economic Model 147  Irrationality of the Second Order 150  Selling Kidneys 153  A Foxy Approach to Economic Demography 162  5 The Ultimate Question: Case Study 3-Why Do Some Countries Develop Faster Than Others? Economics, Culture, and Institutions 167  The Hedgehog of Geography 169  Foxy and Other Economists 180  The Harm That Hedgehogs Do 195  6 The Best of the Humanities 200  Justifying the Humanities 206  The Humanities as Often Taught 209  Why Not Just Read SparkNotes? 212  Overcoming the Human 213  Character and Nanocharacter 216  Ethics and Stories 218  Experience from Within 222  Globalization 232  World Literature and the Curriculum 234  Writing and Argument 238  Conclusion 241  7 De-hedgehogizing Adam Smith: The Economics That Might Be 243  Sympathy and Empathy 248  Theory as Anti-Theory 249  Smith the Novelist 252  Negative Pluralism 254  Rethinking the Invisible Hand 255  What Humanists Can Learn from Economists 259  Humanism and Behavioral Economics 261  8 Humanomics: A Dialogue of Disciplines 288  Index 295","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865537786199,"sku":"9780691176680","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691176680.jpg?v=1722274451","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cents-and-sensibility-9780691176680","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}