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The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community

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Insurance may be an efficient way of organizing resources, but the deep social and human ties that constitute community are weakened by the shift from reciprocity to market relations. This book dissects the ways in which foundational assumptions of economics justify a world in which social connections are impoverished.

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Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community 2010, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674047228

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The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community 2008, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674026544

Hardcover