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Creativity and Economic Psychology
Author(s) -
MagyariBeck Istvan
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
creativity and innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1467-8691
pISSN - 0963-1690
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8691.1992.tb00036.x
Subject(s) - creativity , metaphor , altruism (biology) , epistemology , positive economics , economics , psychology , sociology , social psychology , philosophy , linguistics
Traditional economics is grounded in a classical belief system central to which is the automatic human behaviour known as economic maximisation. A more recent biological metaphor of human altruism has its own conceptual difficulties. The two approaches can be transcended by a theory of economics which incorporates human creativity.