The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability: Recasting the Economic Process explores the civil economy tradition in economic thought. Gaining increasing consensus worldwide, this alternative—not heterodox—view of the economic process and agents explains how modern economics is placing increasing emphasis on the determinants of subjective wellbeing and environmental sustainability. With support from behavioral economics, this book makes a foundational contribution that will help users better understand and prepare for future economic challenges.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Attributions - p. xiii 6. Preface - p. xv 7. Chapter 1. Economics: What it studies, with what methods, and how it evolved - p. 1 8. Chapter 2. The market - p. 51 9. Chapter 3. The theory of consumption - p. 83 10. Chapter 4. The theory of production decisions - p. 115 11. Chapter 5. Perfectly competitive markets - p. 139 12. Chapter 6. Non-competitive markets and elements of game theory - p. 157 13. Chapter 7. New theories of the firm - p. 199 14. Chapter 8. The utilitarian view of welfare economics - p. 227 15. Chapter 9. The theory of Homo reciprocans - p. 271 16. Chapter 10. Not just for profit: civil enterprises and values-based organizations - p. 295 17. Chapter 11. Corporate social responsibility - p. 321 18. Chapter 12. Happiness, relational goods, and social progress - p. 361 19. Chapter 13. Growth and the environment in the era of globalization - p. 401 20. Epilogue: from “homo oeconomicus” to “civil animal” - p. 445 21. Index - p. 451
The Microeconomics of Wellbeing and Sustainability: Recasting the Economic Process explores the civil economy tradition in economic thought. Gaining increasing consensus worldwide, this alternative—not heterodox—view of the economic process and agents explains how modern economics is placing increasing emphasis on the determinants of subjective wellbeing and environmental sustainability. With support from behavioral economics, this book makes a foundational contribution that will help users better understand and prepare for future economic challenges.
1. Cover image - p. i 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Attributions - p. xiii 6. Preface - p. xv 7. Chapter 1. Economics: What it studies, with what methods, and how it evolved - p. 1 8. Chapter 2. The market - p. 51 9. Chapter 3. The theory of consumption - p. 83 10. Chapter 4. The theory of production decisions - p. 115 11. Chapter 5. Perfectly competitive markets - p. 139 12. Chapter 6. Non-competitive markets and elements of game theory - p. 157 13. Chapter 7. New theories of the firm - p. 199 14. Chapter 8. The utilitarian view of welfare economics - p. 227 15. Chapter 9. The theory of Homo reciprocans - p. 271 16. Chapter 10. Not just for profit: civil enterprises and values-based organizations - p. 295 17. Chapter 11. Corporate social responsibility - p. 321 18. Chapter 12. Happiness, relational goods, and social progress - p. 361 19. Chapter 13. Growth and the environment in the era of globalization - p. 401 20. Epilogue: from “homo oeconomicus” to “civil animal” - p. 445 21. Index - p. 451
