Beliefs in action : economic philosophy and social change / Eduardo Giannetti Da Fonseca
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- Fonseca, Eduardo Giannetti da, 1957-
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- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991
- xiii, 256 p. ; 24 cm.
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- 052139306X
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- Machine derived contents note: Preface and acknowledgements
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- Part I. The War of Ideas: 1. From Hume to Hayek: economic policy and the role of ideas in social action
- 2. The scientific challenge to economic philosophy, I: physicalism and the birth of the 'man-machine' doctrine: La Mettrie
- 3. The scientific challenge to economic philosophy, II: economics and the rise of 'economic man': Jevons and edgeworth
- 4. Economic man and man-machine: some logical parallels and contrasts between the two concepts
- 5. The logic of the economic situation: complex societies and the choice of cunduct-enforcing mechanisms
- 6. The passions of the imagination, I: Hume and Adam Smith on the sub-rational determinants of belief
- 7. The passions of the imagination, II: Hume and Adam Smith on the psychology of the economic agent
- Conclusion to part I
- Part II. Patterns of Misunderstanding: 8. Understanding misunderstandings: the intergenerational transmission of ideas and the time-factor
- 9. Contracts and traps: Bacon's contract of error and the notion of pure misunderstanding
- 10. On the misuse of language: ordinary language, formalism and the false-security pitfall
- 11. Errors and illusions: Francis Bacon on the sub-rational determinants of belief
- 12. The protection of belief: pure misunderstanding as the result of theoretical akrasia
- 13. On misunderstanding Malthus: the reception of the Essay on Population: critics and supporters
- 14. Ideas into politics, I: The transmission of abstract thought: three levels of exchange
- 15. Ideas into politics, II: sweeping claims, the philosopher-king and pure misunderstanding
- Conclusion to part II
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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- Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cambridge.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-248) and index.
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