The Curious Culture of Economic Theory

Spiegler, Ran

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-16
  • 售價: $1,410
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,340
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 216
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262548224
  • ISBN-13: 9780262548229
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商品描述

An essay collection that insightfully explores the professional culture of contemporary economic theory, highlighting key features of successful economic theory from the last quarter century.

When is a theoretical result taken seriously enough for economic application? How do theorists actively try to influence this judgment? What determines whether a new theoretical subfield adopts a "pure" or an "applied" style? How do theorists respond to economists' penchant for "rational" explanations of human behavior? These are just some of the questions regarding the professional culture of contemporary economic theory that Ran Spiegler attempts to answer in this incisive essay collection, The Curious Culture of Economic Theory. In exploring these questions, Spiegler addresses the norms that economic theorists apply as they produce, evaluate, and disseminate research.

Introducing a new genre--a kind of cultural criticism of economic theory--the essays in this unique collection highlight elements of style and rhetoric that characterize classic pieces of economic theory from the last quarter century. For each piece, Spiegler offers a precise yet accessible exposition of modern classics of economic theory while placing them in the broader context of the field's professional culture. Affectionate in its criticism and anthropological in its approach, The Curious Culture of Economic Theory is as valuable a complement to standard textbooks in graduate-level economic theory, game theory, and behavioral economics as it is to the libraries of practicing economic theorists, academic economists, historians of economic thought, and philosophers of economics.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書是一本關於當代經濟理論專業文化的文章集,深入探討了過去25年成功經濟理論的關鍵特點。這本名為《經濟理論的好奇文化》的散文集由Ran Spiegler撰寫,試圖回答一些關於當代經濟理論專業文化的問題。這些問題包括:理論結果何時被認為足夠重要以應用於經濟領域?理論家如何積極影響這種判斷?新的理論子領域是採用「純理論」還是「應用理論」風格?理論家如何回應經濟學家對「理性」解釋人類行為的偏好?Spiegler在這本散文集中探討了經濟理論專業文化中的規範,這些規範在經濟理論的產出、評估和傳播過程中起著重要作用。這本獨特的散文集引入了一種新的文類,即對經濟理論的文化批評,並突出了過去25年經濟理論經典作品的風格和修辭特點。對於每一篇文章,Spiegler提供了對現代經濟理論經典作品的精確而易於理解的闡述,同時將它們置於該領域專業文化的更廣泛背景中。《經濟理論的好奇文化》在批評中表現出深情,並以人類學的方法進行探索,不僅是研究生級別經濟理論、博弈論和行為經濟學標準教科書的有價值補充,也適合實踐經濟理論家、學術經濟學家、經濟思想史學者和經濟哲學家的圖書館收藏。

作者簡介

Ran Spiegler is Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University and University College London, specializing in economic theory. He is the author of Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization. In 2017, he received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics, in recognition of his contributions to this area.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Ran Spiegler是特拉維夫大學和倫敦大學學院的經濟學教授,專攻經濟理論。他是《有限理性與產業組織》一書的作者。2017年,他因對這一領域的貢獻而獲得了Yrjö Jahnsson經濟學獎。