February 18, 2001

The Expansion of Economics and Other Disciplines:
Towards an Inclusive Social Science

Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman, editor

Table of Contents
List of Tables 
List of Figures 
Foreword by Jack Hirshleifer

Chapter 1: Towards the Reorientation of Economics by Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman and Christopher Clague

Part I. Comparing Research Methods

Chapter 2: Economists and Statisticians by Clive W.J. Granger

Chapter 3: Modeling Economic Behavior with System Dynamics --Theory & Practice by Shlomo Maital

Part II. Comparing Ideas on Economic Development

Chapter 4: Imperialism and Competition in Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science and Economics: A Perspective from Development Economics by Vernon W. Ruttan

Chapter 5: The Political Economy of Economic Liberalization: Analytical Approaches from Economics and Political Science by Christopher Clague

Part III. Comparing Ideas on the Firm

Chapter 6: The Economic Approach to Personnel Research
by Michael Gibbs and Alec Levenson

Chapter 7: Household Work and Market Work: Towards a New Model of Worker Absenteeism by Richard Peter Audas and John Graham Treble Part IV. Comparing Ideas on Family and Church

Chapter 8: The Economics and Sociology of Marriage: Historical Trends and the Case of In-Marriage Household Labor by Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman 

Chapter 9: A Demographer at the Cusp between Economics and Sociology: An Interview with David Heer by Shoshana Grossbard-Shechtman

Chapter 10: A Marriage Made in Heaven: Economic Theory and Religious Behavior by Lawrence R. Iannaccone

Part V. Comparing Ideas on Individual and Collective Behavior

Chapter 11: On the Rationality of Cognitive Dissonance by Louis Levy-Garboua and Serge Blondel

Chapter 12: Economics and Collective Identity: Explaining Collective Action by Dipak Gupta