Morals and Markets: The Dangerous Balance
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1137282584 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 287 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Timely Advice for our Future Mt. Tam Hiker Why isn't everybody reading this book?? It's a fascinating blend of the history of markets, and the evolution of morality, especially as it is influenced by the ever-widening effects of human economic cooperation. The two authors have done some serious thinking on the subject and are also offering substantive suggestions for going forward and avoiding some of our recent missteps, like the 2008 d. "A Great Book!" according to Margaret Moon. This book by Daniel McNeill & Dan Friedman is entertaining and educational!. Eric M. Fischer said Excellent book -- must read for economists and non-economists. Excellent text. I used it in an undergraduate economics seminar that I taught on financial crisis and it is one of the few books that actually goes into not only the economics but also the ethical/moral issues associated with the most recent financial crisis. Highly recommend to anyone (both economists and non-economists) interested in a better understanding of the complex set of economic issues
He has received 11 National Science Foundation grants. Daniel Friedman is a well-known economist and theorist who has published widely in leading academic journals in economics, finance, psychology, and politics. Sunder; The Double Auction Market: Institutions, Theories and Evidence (Addison Wesley/Santa Fe Institute, 1993), coedited with J. He is also the author of The Face (Little, Brown, 1998), a Book-of-the-Mo
They show how imbalance between morals and markets is at the root of the recent corporate scandals in the US as well as the global financial crisis the world continues to face.. Friedman and McNeill draw on recent research in evolutionary game theory and behavioral economics to explore the relationship between our moral codes and our market systems
This book should be mandatory reading for ideologues on both sides of the debates on the extent to which self-organized markets, freed of regulation, can be relied on to put food on our tables and keep at bay the beasts within us.' - Daniel McFadden, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2000"As we evolved in small bands, and now live in a crowded civilization of seven billion, we face new problems in figuring out how to get along. It's a real achievement." - Kim Stanley Robinson, author of 2312 and the Mars Trilogy"Anyone interested in markets and morals perhaps the central issue of our time should read this very interesting and thoughtful book." - Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University. This book greatly clarifies our situation by providing a world history of economic systems, and by analyzing many of the recent catastrophes of globalization. And when they break down,