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Dedication ; Preface; Chapter 1: Economists' Epistemological Challenges; Chapter 2: The Trajectory of the First Social Science; Chapter 3: An Overview of Socially Constructed Mental Models and Vocabularies; Chapter 4: From Metaphor to Fact: The Early History of Creating a New Language of Markets and Economies; Chapter 5: Value Judgments Regarding the Meaning of Wealth; Chapter 6: Alternative Values and Mental Models: The Recurring Challenge of Inequality; Chapter 7: The Long-Standing Interest in the Meanings, Causes, and Consequences of Inequality.
Chapter 8: Is the Past a Reliable Prologue for the Future of Economics?Notes; Contents; Chapter 1: Economists' Epistemological Challenges; We Are Prisoners of Our Dictionaries; How to Think, Not Just What to Think; So Much for Generalities; Notes; Chapter 2: The Trajectory of the First Social Science; What and Why Economists Do What They Do; The Discipline's Numerical Expansion and Diversification; Ideological Camps Based on Competing Value Assumptions; A Common Language If Not Common Assumptions and Values; Further Background and Prologue; Notes.
Chapter 3: An Overview of Socially Constructed Mental Models and VocabulariesThe What and Why of Mental Models; Why a New Economic Man Was Needed; Economic Man Donned a Hat of Virtue; Myths Play a Role; A New Suit for Economic Man; Returning to the Question: Is Rational Economic Man Really Necessary?; Notes; Chapter 4: From Metaphor to Fact: The Early History of Creating a New Language of Markets and Economies; The Ideal as a Benchmark; Operationalizing the Unknown; Creative Soothsayers; The Missing Invisible; In the Crossfire; Ideology in the Open; Notes.
Chapter 5: Value Judgments Regarding the Meaning of WealthWhat to Measure; Alternatives; The Social Creation of Systems; Watch Your Values; Gaps Discovered; Notes; Chapter 6: Alternative Values and Mental Models: The Recurring Challenge of Inequality; Myths Are Rediscovered; The Malthus Alternative; Rediscovering Poverty If Not Inequality; Lessons Learned; Notes; Chapter 7: The Long-Standing Interest in the Meanings, Causes, and Consequences of Inequality; Inequality Is Both a Descriptive and a Value-Laden Word; Piketty's Historical Statistical Profile of American Inequality.
How Some Other Economists, Historians, and Social Scientists Viewed InequalityMoral Philosophy: Some Inequality Is Neither Natural Nor Necessary; The Role of Politics, Policy, and Power; Apologists for Inequality; That's Not How Adam Smith Saw It; Michels, Weber, and Other Social Scientists; Questions Economists and Others Are Asking; Notes; Chapter 8: Is the Past a Reliable Prologue for the Future of Economics?; Looking to the Future; Lawless Laws; Enter the Alternatives; Caution Again; Asking Other Questions; The Old Imperialists; Notes; Publications Cited; Index.
Chapter 8: Is the Past a Reliable Prologue for the Future of Economics?Notes; Contents; Chapter 1: Economists' Epistemological Challenges; We Are Prisoners of Our Dictionaries; How to Think, Not Just What to Think; So Much for Generalities; Notes; Chapter 2: The Trajectory of the First Social Science; What and Why Economists Do What They Do; The Discipline's Numerical Expansion and Diversification; Ideological Camps Based on Competing Value Assumptions; A Common Language If Not Common Assumptions and Values; Further Background and Prologue; Notes.
Chapter 3: An Overview of Socially Constructed Mental Models and VocabulariesThe What and Why of Mental Models; Why a New Economic Man Was Needed; Economic Man Donned a Hat of Virtue; Myths Play a Role; A New Suit for Economic Man; Returning to the Question: Is Rational Economic Man Really Necessary?; Notes; Chapter 4: From Metaphor to Fact: The Early History of Creating a New Language of Markets and Economies; The Ideal as a Benchmark; Operationalizing the Unknown; Creative Soothsayers; The Missing Invisible; In the Crossfire; Ideology in the Open; Notes.
Chapter 5: Value Judgments Regarding the Meaning of WealthWhat to Measure; Alternatives; The Social Creation of Systems; Watch Your Values; Gaps Discovered; Notes; Chapter 6: Alternative Values and Mental Models: The Recurring Challenge of Inequality; Myths Are Rediscovered; The Malthus Alternative; Rediscovering Poverty If Not Inequality; Lessons Learned; Notes; Chapter 7: The Long-Standing Interest in the Meanings, Causes, and Consequences of Inequality; Inequality Is Both a Descriptive and a Value-Laden Word; Piketty's Historical Statistical Profile of American Inequality.
How Some Other Economists, Historians, and Social Scientists Viewed InequalityMoral Philosophy: Some Inequality Is Neither Natural Nor Necessary; The Role of Politics, Policy, and Power; Apologists for Inequality; That's Not How Adam Smith Saw It; Michels, Weber, and Other Social Scientists; Questions Economists and Others Are Asking; Notes; Chapter 8: Is the Past a Reliable Prologue for the Future of Economics?; Looking to the Future; Lawless Laws; Enter the Alternatives; Caution Again; Asking Other Questions; The Old Imperialists; Notes; Publications Cited; Index.