A tempered and humane economy : : markets, families, and behavioral economics / / Jannett Highfill and Patricia Podd Webber.

• VerfasserIn: Highfill, Jannett K.,; Webber, Patricia Podd,
• TeilnehmendeR: Webber, Patricia Podd,
• Place / Publishing House: Lanham : : Lexington Books,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (193 pages)

Table of Contents

• Each person, each family
• The wisdom of families
• Elana's family network
• It's complicated, investing in yourself
• "It's not fair"
• Talk the walk
• What's luck got to do with it?
• The wisdom of families : supporting each other's decisions
• The big picture : investment decisions in context
• The wisdom of families : democracy is learned at home
• Investing in strangers
• The wisdom of families' : the most important investment
• Education : it's a social contract
• Mother jones would be pretty happy
• The best nets are more holes than rope
• Thinking harder : does "help" really help?
• The wisdom of families : good intentions and unintended consequences
• Tough love for the poor
• Tough love for the rich
• The wisdom of families : avoiding double standards
• Prosperity is an enormous achievement
• Warts and all, we are a big rich country
• Inclusive vs. extractive institutions : thinking globally
• When markets produce
• Markets and meaningful work
• Tempering markets with government policy
• The government we make
• When the challenge is healthcare
• Looking to the future
• The wisdom of families : challenge and aspiration
• Tempered optimism, humane prosperity
• Appendix 1: when you have enough to share, share wisely
• Appendix 2: concrete suggestions for sharing
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Index.