Ricardo Hausman — The Moral Identity of Homo Economicus

Even Harvard waking up and smelling the coffee?

Project Syndicate
The Moral Identity of Homo Economicus
Ricardo Hausmann | Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University and professor of economics at the Harvard Kennedy School, formerly minister of planning of Venezuela and former Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Diane Coyle — Economies and economics

As part of the preparation for the new course I’m teaching at the University of Manchester this autumn, Economics for Public Policy, I’ve been looking again at Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution by Sam Bowles. It’s a decade old now but still pretty unique in its approach, which is rooted in social interactions and institutions rather than the atomised individuals of the standard micro course. In other words, it’s about economies, and not ‘economics’.

The Enlightened Economist
Economies and economics
Diane Coyle | Acting Chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation