{"id":433,"date":"2008-06-30T01:43:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2008-07-29T00:24:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T07:24:51","slug":"hedonic-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2008\/06\/30\/hedonic-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedonic Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hedonic Man is the title of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/story_print.html?id=3bc0e959-3b4e-440d-9b99-69078429b82c\">a review by Alan Wolfe<\/a> of two books on the &#8220;new economics&#8221;. Like Wolfe (and probably countless others) I am sure that the science of economics is sorely lacking, but also like him I am more than skeptical of the ideas of these revolutionaries (which I must admit I have not read directly but have come across in various contexts). However my objections are often different than Wolfe&#8217;s and in fact I think his review misses the point in a number of key respects.<\/p>\n<p>To start with the second of the authors being reviewed, it was a discussion elsewhere (in Scientific American if I recall correctly) of some of the experiments described by Dan Ariely which irritated me so much that  I have been meaning for some time to look it up again and write a response. Wolfe&#8217;s review now gives me that opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>But in the unlikely event that I actually have a reader for any of this, I am afraid you will have to wait until tomorrow (since <a href=\"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=434\">my attention span has just expired<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hedonic Man is the title of a review by Alan Wolfe of two books on the &#8220;new economics&#8221;. Like Wolfe (and probably countless others) I am sure that the science of economics is sorely lacking, but also like him I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2008\/06\/30\/hedonic-man\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,18,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}