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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 933–990.
Published: 01 November 2000
.... Revue Anthropologique 31 : 489 -90; 32 : 248 -51. Pearson, Heath. 1997 . Origins of Law and Economics: The Economists' New Science of Law, 1830-1930 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Persky, Joseph. 1995 . The Ethology of Homo Economicus. Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 : 221...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 991–998.
Published: 01 November 2000
... of Detribalization in Northern Rhodesia . Parts 1 and 2. Rhodes Livingstone Papers, nos. 5-6. Economics and Barbarism:
An Anthropological Comment on
Pearson’s “Homo Economicus”
James Ferguson
I must begin by thanking Heath Pearson for his provocative and coura-
geous article, and Philip Mirowski...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 1011–1016.
Published: 01 November 2000
... Pearson’s “Homo Economicus
Goes Native, 1859–1945”
Jane I. Guyer
Heath Pearson’s claimthat a growing indifference developed between
economics and anthropology after the mid-century is a provocative one,
since it predates by about ten years the rise of the subdiscipline that
defines itself...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 1017–1026.
Published: 01 November 2000
... . Edited by Gunther Roth and Claus Wittich. 2 vols. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Comment on Pearson’s
“Homo Economicus Goes Native”
Keith Hart
World civilization is usually conceived ofas an economy these days,
and this has allowed economic anthropology...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (suppl_1): 122–142.
Published: 01 January 1997
... and the Law: From Posner to Post Modernism. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The Trial of Homo Economicus: What
Law and Economics Tells Us about the
Development of Economic Imperialism
Steven G. Medema
Economic analysis in the last third of the twentieth century has been...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (5): 823–858.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Juan Carvajalino Abstract This article shows, based on archival material, where and how von Neumann's mathematical economics evolved from the realization around 1932 that there existed a formal analogy between economics and games to the conviction in 1940 that the analogy between homo economicus...
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (1): 35–64.
Published: 01 March 2016
...—no longer as a means to explain behavior but only as a means to describe it. It is argued that Robinson Crusoe and homo economicus are closely related and that, therefore, the Robinson Crusoe stories afford insights into the development of neoclassical economics and the problems resulting from its reliance...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (S1): 303–322.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Allison Demeritt; Karla Hoff A core insight of behavioral economics is that we are “fast thinkers”; very little human thinking resembles the rational, deliberate type that charac-terizes homo economicus . What is less well recognized is that our innate reliance on cognitive shortcuts means...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (4): 625–648.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Teresa Tomás Rangil The writings of the American economist Jack Hirshleifer (1925–2005) are considered some of the most influential contributions to the economics of conflict. This article examines how Hirshleifer transformed the behavioral assumptions of Homo economicus (the self-interest model...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (3): 495–519.
Published: 01 September 2010
... in society and how this vision differs greatly from neoclassical homo economicus . Correspondence may be addressed to Fabio Monsalve at [email protected] . This essay benefited from the suggestions of two anonymous referees. I am also grateful to Serap Kayatekin for his useful comments provided...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 999–1010.
Published: 01 November 2000
... of the alliance between economics and anthropol-
ogy. His Homo economicus is an immortal being without a history. He
does battle with Homo erroneous and other demons whom he “system-
atically” routs. This is good myth but is it good history? Homo eco-
nomicus, who, as Pearson rightly notes, had been around...
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History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (2): 197–203.
Published: 01 June 2005
...—this Smith who uses homo economicus as the
premise for analysis of human behavior and for modeling the human
condition—has become the accepted identity of Adam Smith among
most modern economists. But the Adam Smith from Kirkaldy, the “Kirk-
aldy Smith,” is a very different person from the one Chicago...
Journal Article
History of Political Economy (2002) 34 (1): 273–281.
Published: 01 March 2002
...: An Anthropological Comment on Pearson's “Homo Economicus.” HOPE 32.4 : 991 -98. Geertz, Clifford. 1963a . Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia . Berkeley: University of California Press. ____. 1963b . Peddlers and Princes: Social Change and Economic Modernization...
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History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (Suppl_1): 333–354.
Published: 01 December 2005
... and Politics . London: Macmillan. Perroux, François. 1938 . Capitalisme et communauté de travail . Paris: Librairie du Recueil Sirey. Persky, Joseph. 1995 . The Ethology of Homo Economicus. Journal of Economic Perspectives 9.2 : 221 -31. Pirou, Gaëtan. 1938 . Essais sur le corporatisme...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (1): 191–219.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and Homo Economicus
In the preface, Liberatore (1889, 5–6) explains what moved him to write
an introduction to political economy: on the one hand, an acquaintance
with the subject is required in almost all elds of social life; on the other,
the subject needs a thorough cleansing of the “sensistic...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (4): 723–746.
Published: 01 November 2010
... . The Irreducibly Social Self in Classical Economy: Adam Smith and Thomas Chalmers Meet G.H. Mead. History of Economics Review 40 (Summer): 121 –36. ———. 2006 Das Adam Smith Problem: A Critical Realist Perspective. Journal of Critical Realism 5.2 : 251 –72. ———. 2008a . Homo Economicus Meets G. H...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 213–239.
Published: 01 December 2017
... original linguistic meaning: the respondent to a CV survey liter-
ally speaks economic values into being.
The natural question then becomes, just what has been spoken into
being? Do the objects look like the kinds of values that would be generated
by homo economicus? Economists began asking...
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History of Political Economy (1977) 9 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 June 1977
... variables of the
problem (mass, distance, and time).
Just as economic hypotheses are not refuted by facts, so rational
economic man when pitted against actual men only shows what an oddball he
is. Logically we can either rebuke homo economicus for being too narrow-
minded, or we can...
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Exploring the Fault Lines: Introduction to the Minisymposium on the History of Economic Anthropology
History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 919–932.
Published: 01 November 2000
..., Heath Pearson’s essay “Homo Economicus Goes Native.” It seems
that, if neither side will muster sufficient enthusiasm to explore the his-
torical issues involved, then the task will devolve to outsiders to both
disciplines to set out and write the history of economic anthropology.
Pearson’s article...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (3): 437–458.
Published: 01 September 2001
... . Economics as a Science . New York: McGraw-Hill. Bowles, S., and H. Gintis. 1993 . The Revenge of Homo Economicus: Contested Exchange and the Revival of Political Economy. Journal of Economic Perspectives 7 : 83 -102. Clark, J. M. 1918 . Economics and Modern Psychology. Journal of Political Economy...
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