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A Joyful Economist. Scitovsky?s Memoirs

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  • Marina Bianchi

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Few economists choose to write memoirs, and of those who do most adopt the "logic of my contributions? approach. Tibor Scitovsky, Hungarian-born theorist who spent most of his career at Stanford and Berkeley, instead left us unpublished recollections, many of his childhood, others bearing on his personal philosophy (and shift therein) - of teaching, of the role of economic theory, of its imperfections. By their nature these Memoirs give us glimpses into his nimble, original thinking, without being weighed down with considerations of priority, answering critics, and so on. The paper tries to capture this spirit, frequently in Scitovsky?s own words.

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  • Marina Bianchi, 2012. "A Joyful Economist. Scitovsky?s Memoirs," HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2012(2), pages 57-73.
    • Handle: RePEc:fan:spespe:v:html10.3280/spe2012-002003
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    1. Marina Bianchi, 2018. "Tibor Scitovsky as behavioral economist," Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE), vol. 2(1), pages 39-43, March.
    2. Antonio Bariletti & Eleonora Sanfilippo, 2017. "At the origin of the notion of ?creative? goods in economics: Scitovsky and Hawtrey," HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2017(1), pages 5-34.
    3. Di Giovinazzo, Viviana, 2023. "The cultural and aesthetic roots of The Joyless Economy," SocArXiv etgfx, Center for Open Science.

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    • B30 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - General
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals

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