The theory of the individual in economics : identity and value

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-210) and index

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 Framing the issues; 1.1 Modernism as dualism: origins of the modernist concept of the individual; 1.2 Contemporary critiques of the modernist conception of the individual; 1.3 Individuals in economics; 1.4 Orthodox economics and heterodox economics; 1.5 Plan of this work; PART I Orthodox economics; 2 The atomistic individual; 2.1 Locke's legacy; 2.2 The evolution of the atomistic individual conception; 2.3 The requirements of atomism; 2.4 Methodological individualism and reductionism: a last-ditch defense?

2.5 Game theory to the rescue?2.6 What kind of individual?; 3 Reidentification: preferences and human capital; 3.1 The standard pure preferences view of the individual; 3.2 Reidentification à la Locke and in the pure preferences account; 3.3 Locke's critics; 3.4 The Butler-Hume critique applied to the neoclassical view; 3.5 The time allocation conception of the individual; 3.6 New problems; 3.7 Individuation reconsidered; 4 Individuation: multiple selves; 4.1 Single versus multiple utility functions; 4.2 Internal preference structures; 4.3 Endogenously changing preferences

4.4 A unity of selves or a plurality of selves?5 After the fall: the machinery of choice; 5.1 Mind as a computer; 5.2 Economics as cognitive science; 5.3 After the fall; PART II Heterodox economics; 6 The embedded individual; 6.1 The legacy of Marx and Durkheim; 6.2 Social theory's structure-agency models of the individual and society; 6.3 Social psychology's self-referent behavior and individual self-concept; 6.4 The socially embedded individual conception in economics; 6.5 The socially embedded individual conception; 7 Individuation: collective intentionality

7.1 Collective intentionality analysis7.2 Collective intentionality and the structure-agent framework; 7.3 A revised view of individual economic behavior; 7.4 The individuation of embedded individuals; 7.5 Individuation in the atomistic and socially embedded individual conceptions; 8 Reidentification: capabilities; 8.1 Sen's capability framework; 8.2 The capability framework applied to the reidentification of embedded individuals; 8.3 The embedded individual conception as an ideal conception; 8.4 Sen's thinking about the individual versus the embedded individual conception

8.5 Concluding remark on the atomistic and embedded individual conceptions9 Before the fall: value in economics; 9.1 Facts and values; 9.2 Welfarism, utilitarianism, and the atomistic individual conception; 9.3 Normative reasoning and the socially embedded individual conception; 9.4 Individual identity as a normative concern; 9.5 A classical world; 10 Revisiting the issues; 10.1 Ontology in economics; 10.2 Individual identity in economics and personal identity; 10.3 Two historical traditions; 10.4 Significance; Notes; References; Index

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