Business & Economics
Event Title
Economics and Human Nature(s): Instrumentalism, Realism, or Something Else
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Location
Indianapolis, IN
Start Date
10-4-2015 2:30 PM
End Date
10-4-2015 3:45 PM
Sponsor
Robert Main (Butler University)
Description
What is the economic conception of human nature? Is it more appropriate to ask what are the varying kinds of economic conceptions of human nature? This presentation will discuss the role of simplifying assumptions in economic theory and how these assumptions influence or are influenced by economic conceptions of humans. Arguments will be considered from the fields of Behavioral Economics, Feminist Economics, and Economic Methodology. Contemporary debates about rationality and abstraction will be elucidated through this analysis of economic conceptions of human nature.
Economics and Human Nature(s): Instrumentalism, Realism, or Something Else
Indianapolis, IN
What is the economic conception of human nature? Is it more appropriate to ask what are the varying kinds of economic conceptions of human nature? This presentation will discuss the role of simplifying assumptions in economic theory and how these assumptions influence or are influenced by economic conceptions of humans. Arguments will be considered from the fields of Behavioral Economics, Feminist Economics, and Economic Methodology. Contemporary debates about rationality and abstraction will be elucidated through this analysis of economic conceptions of human nature.