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Jordan and Harris' Beyond Rational Choice: Alternative Perspectives on Economics

By Emma Coleman Jordan, Angela P. Harris

ISBN-13: 9781587789588

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Series: University Casebook Series

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This title is designed to provide materials for faculty and students who want to explore the basic intellectual history of modern economics and its turn away from rigid rationality assumptions. It includes material that would be useful in courses and seminars taught in economics departments at all levels, as well as law school courses and seminars. It looks beyond neoclassical theory an provides commentary from scholars, those who share a faith in market ordering, as well as those who reject the model of the market for distributing the basic necessities of life.

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Summary Of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Table Of Cases
Chapter
1. Race, Markets and Neutrality in Two Disciplines
  1. Critical Race Theory: Narrative, Neutrality, and the Marketplace
  2. A Law and Economics Challenge to the Neutrality of the Critical Race Narrative Methodology
  3. The Narrative of Post–Modern Racism: The "Microagressions"
  4. Economics and Law: Two Cultures in Tension
  5. Judging Race: The Doctrine of Discriminatory Intent
  6. Neutrality Challenges From Other Social Science Methodologies:
    1. Cognitive Psychology—Scientific Evidence of Cognitive Bias?
    2. Sociology and Law: Stigma Theory
2. Classic Market Theory and Law and Economics
  1. Classic Market Theory
  2. Libertarianism
  3. Law and Economics
    1. Law and Economics in Judicial Reasoning
    2. The Problem of Incompatible Property Uses: The Roles for Private Bargaining and Judicial Injunctions
    3. The Problem of Redistribution
    4. Politics
3. Beyond Classic Market Theory–Internal Critiques
  1. Beyond Price Theory
  2. Beyond the "Rational Actor"
  3. Beyond Traditional Macroeconomics: "Ecological Economics"
4. Beyond Classic Market Theory: External Critiques
  1. An Overview
  2. Normative Critiques of Economic Analysis
    1. Beyond: Rational Choice
    2. Beyond: Wealth Maximization and Price Theory
    3. Beyond: Cost–Benefit Analysis
    4. Beyond: Market Theory
5. Wealth and Inequality
  1. Defining "Class"
  2. The Constitution: Wealth and Class
  3. Class and Inequality—Historical Perspectives
    - Income Inequality
  4. Wealth, Class and Economic Mobility—The Intergenerational Effects
    - Wealth Inequality
6. Life in a Class Society
  1. Down and Out
  2. Relations of (Re)production
  3. Class and Consumption
Copyright Permissions & Further Acknowledgments
Index