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Constructing a More Scientific Economics

John Tomer's Pluralistic and Humanistic Economics

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Editors:
  1. Morris Altman

    1. University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

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  • Brings together a collection of scholars celebrating John Tomer’s contributions
  • Discusses the latest research in behavioural economics
  • Enriches course delivery, providing with approach to economic and socioeconomic analysis

Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Behavioral Economics (PABE)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Morris Altman
    Pages 1-15

  3. John Tomer and The Society for the Advancement of Behavioural Economics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Behavioral Economics and the Birth (and Rebirth) of SABE: The Legacy of John Tomer

      • Shlomo Maital
      Pages 19-31

  4. A More Humane and Human Centric Economic Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Tomer’s Humanistic Hand

      • Li Way Lee
      Pages 35-45

    3. Inclusive Capitalism

      • Robert Ashford
      Pages 47-80

    4. John Tomer’s Reconceptualization of the Concept of Human Capital

      • John B. Davis
      Pages 81-98

  5. Aspects of the Human Firm

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. John Tomer’s Human Firm: How Behavioral Economics Has Helped Us Understand the Firm

      • Justin Ferguson, Mark Pingle, Cameron Xu
      Pages 101-125

    3. Community Embeddedness, Consumer Voice, Corporate Social Responsibility

      • Morris Altman
      Pages 127-145

    4. John Tomer, X-Efficiency Theory, and Behavioral Economics

      • Roger Frantz
      Pages 147-166

  6. The Behavioural Economics of Healthy Living

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. The Behavioral Economics of Healthy and Sustainable Food Consumption

      • Gerrit Antonides
      Pages 169-195

    3. Obesity, Wellbeing, Freedom of Choice, and Institutional Change

      • Hannah Josepha Rachel Altman, Morris Altman
      Pages 197-234

  7. Behavioural Aspects of the Household and Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Intergenerational Inequality and Parenting: Making Room for the Parent–Child Relationship

      • Art Goldsmith
      Pages 237-253

    3. Assessing the New Home Economics with 2020 Vision

      • Shoshana Grossbard, Andrea H. Beller
      Pages 255-280

  8. Behavioural Economics and Public Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281
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    2. Crossing the Valley of Death Between Academic Research and Effective Policy: The Role of Behavioral Economics

      • Shlomo Maital
      Pages 283-295
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Keywords

About this book

John Tomer was a leading intellectual figure in behavioural economics, making distinct contributions to the theory of the firm, social economy, choice theory, and government policy. His underlying methodology as an economist was to incorporate different disciplinary approaches to the subject at hand, whilst maintaining an underlying respect and understanding of how and why humans behave the way they do.

This book brings together a collection of scholars celebrating John Tomer’s contributions to the field of economics. Covering key areas of his research, contributing authors discuss the latest research in behavioral economics, the human firm, climate change policy, sustainability, well-being, human capital, and human development. This volume, extending John Tomer’s more scientific perspective rooted in behavioural and institutional economics, should find an audience among both scholars and policy advocates. It can also enrich course delivery, providing students with alternativeperspectives and approach to economic and socio-economic analysis.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

    Morris Altman

About the editor

Morris Altman is the Dean of the School of Business and Chaired Professor of Behavioral and Institutional Economics and Co-operatives at the University of Dundee, UK. He was Dean of and Professor at the Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and was formerly Head of Economics and Finance and Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He served as Editor of the Journal of Socio-Economics for ten years and was the co-founder of the Review of Behavioral Economics. He is also past President of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics and of the Association for Social Economics. Morris has published well over 100 refereed papers and has published 14 books in economic theory, co-operatives, and public policy including, Behavioral Economics for Dummies, Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy, and Smart Decision-Making: Rational Decision-Making within the Bounds of Reason. He is founding editor of the Elsevier book series Perspectives on Behavioral Economics and the Economics of Behavior.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Constructing a More Scientific Economics

  • Book Subtitle: John Tomer's Pluralistic and Humanistic Economics

  • Editors: Morris Altman

  • Series Title: Palgrave Advances in Behavioral Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83928-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83927-7Published: 19 May 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83930-7Published: 20 May 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83928-4Published: 17 May 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2662-3846

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-3854

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 339

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Industrial Organization

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