
Gary D Lynne
Metaeconomics
Toward Balance in:
I&We
Me&We
Ich&Du
Ego&Empathy
Self&Other-Interest
Person&Community
Private&Public-Property
Private&Public-Goods
Right&Left-Politics
Market&Government
Incentive&Ethic
Profane&Sacred
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... taking economics back to resting on an empirical foundation of science & humanities (human science).
... leading to a Humane Liberalism based good capitalism: Save Capitalism by Making It Good.
... leading to a Humanomics as practiced by Adam Smith, with the added analytical power from using modern Dual Interest Theory (DIT), working to transcend Single Interest Theory (SIT).
...Don’t Just SIT. Try DIT. You might like (D)IT.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Agricultural Economics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Metaeconomics (Lynne, 2020) brings ethics back into view in economics, while building on Behavioral Economic Science, as in scienceðics, STEM&Humanities. And, with empathy the starting point for ethics, it is especially suited for building an Ego&Empathy Economy as part of an Empathic Civilization (Rifkin, 2009), and a Good Capitalism. Adam Smith (1759/1790) saw Sentiments (Empathy) as the key, which Metaeconomics clarifies is the key to "saving capitalism by making it good (Commons)." Empathy is also the key feature of making for a good Innovism (a term associated with Humanomics, as in McCloskey and Carden 2020), which also rests on a foundation of scienceðics. Metaeconomics is a Humanomics with a theory: Dual Interest Theory works.
References
Commons, John R., Institutional Economist, cited in Whalen, C.J. Saving Capitalism by Making it Good: The Monetary Economics of John R. Commons. Journal of Economic Issues 27,4 (1993): 1155-1179
McCloskey, D.N. and Carden, A. Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020.M
Rifkin, J. The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2009.
Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Edited by D.D. and A.L. Macfie Raphael. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1759/1790.
Book: Lynne, G. D. Metaeconomics: Tempering Excessive Greed. Palgrave Advances in Behavioral Economics (John Tomer, Ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/yxagxtuf
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