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6 May 2014 Multimedia

Tomáš Sedlácek Highlights Hidden Moralism in Economic Models

  1. Tomáš Sedláček

Tomáš Sedlácek cautions against the unconscious moralism that has crept into economics and urges economists to rethink their models to better describe the reality of human behavior.

Tomáš Sedlácek examines the Old and New Testaments as well as ancient Greek and Roman myths that contain archetypal stories that he believes inform modern economic thinking. He cautions against the unconscious moralism that has crept into economics and urges economists to rethink their models to better describe the reality of human behavior.

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