Mccloskey, Deirdre - In: Review of Political Economy 20 (2008) 2, pp. 181-197
Samuelsonian (mainstream) economics cannot even think of stepping beyond its Max U, prudence-only model. But if we are going to have an economics that works and that matters, as economists like Sen and Akerlof and Hirschman have been saying, we need to admit that people do not live by prudence...