Machine generated contents note: Part I. Wealth and Health Insurance 2. Macro Markets and FinancialSecurity 23 -- Stefano Athanasoulis, Robert Shiller, and Eric van Wincoop -- 3. Gene Insurance 47 -- Alexander Tabarrok -- 4. Time-Consistent Health Insurance 53 -- John H. Cochrane -- Part II. The...

This book presents the Metaeconomics Framework and Dual Interest Theory, which weave the empathy-based moral and ethical dimension back into key economic questions. Metaeconomics addresses the problem of placing too much emphasis on the market or the government, and thus argues that seeing the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Landscape of the Metaeconomics Framework and Dual Interest Theory -- 3. Drifting Isles and Re-Integration on the Metaeconomics Continent -- 4. Formal Metaeconomics: Recycling Choices- 5. Metaeconomics as Behavioral Economics and the Focus on Happiness -- 6. Elections...

This book uses an institutional-evolutionary approach to analyse economic problems associated with developments in capitalism during the second half of the twentieth century. It argues that economics should centre on institutions - the durable fabric of the economy over time. Drawing on the...

"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the...

"Institutional economics is a sociocultural discipline and policy science which draws on the idea that economies are best understood through an appreciation of history, real-world institutions, and socioeconomic interrelations. This book brings together leading institutionalists to examine the...