Sendhil Mullainathan
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195305197
- eISBN:
- 9780199783519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195305191.003.0025
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
A growing number of researchers are studying how to integrate psychological insights into economic reasoning. In this perspective, people sometimes make bad choices, ones that they themselves would ...
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A growing number of researchers are studying how to integrate psychological insights into economic reasoning. In this perspective, people sometimes make bad choices, ones that they themselves would like to improve on. This perspective is opening up new ideas, such as how good institutions might help people improve their decisions. This essay discusses these insights using a few choice examples. The goal is to provide a glimpse of how radically different policy suggestions might be in 10 or 20 years as the integration of psychology and economics deepens.Less
A growing number of researchers are studying how to integrate psychological insights into economic reasoning. In this perspective, people sometimes make bad choices, ones that they themselves would like to improve on. This perspective is opening up new ideas, such as how good institutions might help people improve their decisions. This essay discusses these insights using a few choice examples. The goal is to provide a glimpse of how radically different policy suggestions might be in 10 or 20 years as the integration of psychology and economics deepens.
James O. Young
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199682713
- eISBN:
- 9780191762918
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199682713.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
This chapter grants that some of the aesthetic rewards of music are those identified by formalists. The formalist’s account of the value of music cannot be complete because of the heresy of ...
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This chapter grants that some of the aesthetic rewards of music are those identified by formalists. The formalist’s account of the value of music cannot be complete because of the heresy of substitutable experience: formalism has the implausible consequence that studying the score of a musical work can be substituted for hearing a performance of the work without aesthetic loss. This chapter allows that listeners enjoy music as a source of sensory pleasure or of pleasurable emotions. The chapter goes on to argue that only when we recognize that music is a source of knowledge and, in particular, a source of psychological insight into human emotional life, can we explain the full value and profundity of music. The chapter argues that by representing both the expression of emotion and emotions, music is able to characterize emotions (as, for example, tragic, noble, or dignified) and thereby provide additional psychological insight.Less
This chapter grants that some of the aesthetic rewards of music are those identified by formalists. The formalist’s account of the value of music cannot be complete because of the heresy of substitutable experience: formalism has the implausible consequence that studying the score of a musical work can be substituted for hearing a performance of the work without aesthetic loss. This chapter allows that listeners enjoy music as a source of sensory pleasure or of pleasurable emotions. The chapter goes on to argue that only when we recognize that music is a source of knowledge and, in particular, a source of psychological insight into human emotional life, can we explain the full value and profundity of music. The chapter argues that by representing both the expression of emotion and emotions, music is able to characterize emotions (as, for example, tragic, noble, or dignified) and thereby provide additional psychological insight.
Brian Boyd
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231158572
- eISBN:
- 9780231530293
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231158572.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
At the age of twenty-one, the author wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that Nabokov called “brilliant.” After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning ...
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At the age of twenty-one, the author wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that Nabokov called “brilliant.” After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991). This collection features essays written by the author since completing the biography, incorporating material he gleaned from his research as well as new discoveries and formulations. The book confronts Nabokov's life, career, and legacy; his art, science, and thought; his subtle humor and puzzle-like storytelling; his complex psychological portraits; and his inheritance from, reworking of, and affinities with Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. It offers new ways of reading Nabokov's best English-language works: Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and the unparalleled autobiography, Speak, Memory, and he discloses otherwise unknown information about Nabokov's world. Sharing his personal reflections, the author recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's biography and his unusual finds in the archives, including materials still awaiting publication. The first to focus on Nabokov's metaphysics, he cautions against their being used as the key to unlock all of Nabokov's secrets, showing instead the many other rooms in Nabokov's castle of fiction that need exploring, such as his humor, narrative invention, and psychological insight into characters and readers alike. Appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator, scientist, and individual, the book helps us understand more than ever Nabokov's multifaceted genius.Less
At the age of twenty-one, the author wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that Nabokov called “brilliant.” After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (1990) and Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (1991). This collection features essays written by the author since completing the biography, incorporating material he gleaned from his research as well as new discoveries and formulations. The book confronts Nabokov's life, career, and legacy; his art, science, and thought; his subtle humor and puzzle-like storytelling; his complex psychological portraits; and his inheritance from, reworking of, and affinities with Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. It offers new ways of reading Nabokov's best English-language works: Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada, and the unparalleled autobiography, Speak, Memory, and he discloses otherwise unknown information about Nabokov's world. Sharing his personal reflections, the author recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's biography and his unusual finds in the archives, including materials still awaiting publication. The first to focus on Nabokov's metaphysics, he cautions against their being used as the key to unlock all of Nabokov's secrets, showing instead the many other rooms in Nabokov's castle of fiction that need exploring, such as his humor, narrative invention, and psychological insight into characters and readers alike. Appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator, scientist, and individual, the book helps us understand more than ever Nabokov's multifaceted genius.
