Economics for Humans

By Julie A. Nelson

Categories: Business & Money, Politics & Social Sciences

Economist Julie Nelson challenges the idea that the economy is a machine driven only by self-interest. She argues that markets and care are not opposites and that economic life involves relationships, ethics and responsibility. Nelson examines businesses, families and caring work, and calls for an economics that takes human values seriously instead of relying only on mathematical models. The short book is written for general readers.

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• Shane Parrish: “This book desires to update the study of Economics. It argues that the purely mathematical approach to the field has created artificial constructs that are ultimately undermining economic development.”