Introduction and overview -- The historical logic of economics imperialism -- The economic approach : marginalism extended -- New economics imperialism : the revolution portrayed -- From economics, through institutions, to society? -- From social capital to freakonomics -- Economics confronts...

List of contributors IntroductionMichael Cholbi I. Defining the "Post-Work" Debate 1. Envisioning the Post-Work World: A Roundtable ConversationMichael Cholbi, John Danaher, Helen Hester, and Kathi Weeks II. From Past to Future 2. A History of Work as Lived ExperienceBenjamin Hunnicutt 3. The...

The social science of economics / Brian J. Loasby -- Economics and literature / Bruna Ingrao -- Happiness : what Kahneman could have learnt from Pietro Verri / Pier Luigi Porta -- Newtonian physics, experimental moral philosophy and the shaping of political economy / Sergio Volodia Cremaschi --...

All empirical sciences must be able to observe and measure their objects of cognition. In many natural sciences, steady progress in research technology has led to cumulative advances in scientific knowledge. Due to the nature of social phenomena, technical artifacts and procedures cannot...

Daß die Spieltheorie auf die Realität nicht völlig oder nicht direkt anwendbar ist, ist bekannt. Es wird nicht nur von Skeptikern betont, sondern auch von Spieltheoretikern regelmäßig mindestens eingeräumt. "Nicht völlig" oder "nicht direkt" ist nicht dasselbe wie "überhaupt nicht" -...