A Brain-Focused Foundation for Economic Science A Proposed Reconciliation between Neoclassical and Behavioral Economics /

• Main Author: McKenzie, Richard B. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Schools of economics.; Economic history.; Behavioral economics.; Economic theory.; Heterodox Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Behavioral/Experimental Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

This book argues that Lionel Robbins's construction of the economics field's organizing cornerstone, scarcity-and all that has been derived from it from economists in Robbins's time to today-no longer can generate general consent among economists. Since Robbins' Essay, economists...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Economists' Core Concerns in the History of Economic Thought
• 2. Lionel Robbins and Scarcity
• 3. From Robbins to Friedman and Beyond
• 4. Behavioral Economics, Evolution, and the Human Brain
• 5. The Human Brain: The Ultimate Scarce, Efficient, and Rational Resource
• 6. A Brain-Focused Neoclassical Microeconomics. .