1st Edition
Economics for Humanity Integrating Well-being, Community, and Practical Philosophy
Introduction and Overview
I. Groundwork for Bettering Economics
1. Need for Economics to Fully Integrate Human Nature
2. Inheriting from Adam Smith: Ethics and Other Human Nature
3. Considering Humanity (1): Altruism
4. Considering Humanity (2): Social Networks
II. Overview of Economics of Humanity
5. Towards Economics for Humanity
6. Three-Sector Model of the Economy
7. Theoretical Bases of the Three-sector Model
III. Enriching Human Society: A Practical Philosophy
8. A Practical Philosophy for Well-being and Better Society ( I )
9. A Practical Philosophy for Well-being and Better Society ( II )
Biography
Mitsuaki Okabe is Professor Emeritus of Keio University, Japan.
“Pioneering work that usefully broadens our common understanding of Economics itself.”
Kent Calder, Director, Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, USA
“Mainstream economics assumes, most of the time, man as homo economicus, which is very convenient to build up an elegant scientific discipline. Accordingly, economics is often praised as "queen of social sciences". But, if economics integrate more diverse human motives, we can expand the scope and the depth of mainstream economics toward more fruitful humane economics. This book rigorously and convincingly agues, probably for the first time in the literature, that this is the direction of economics to expand.”
Nobuhiro Suzuki, Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan
