(37.) Peter Danner, The
Economic Person: Acting and Analyzing
To renew our economic picture of the world, some very interesting and progressive works have recently rejected this narrow picture of the
economic person, rediscovering the Kantian person with her or his capability of living with (and for) higher needs and, therefore, of being rational in a much broader sense (e.g., Hirschmann, 1993; Lutz & Lux, 1988; Etzioni, 1988).
Danner, The
Economic Person: Acting and Analyzing(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); Charles M.
The
economic person in sociological context: case studies in the mediation of self interest.
One of the chapters that passed both relevance and quality tests with good marks was Thanawala's, "The
Economic Person in a Global Society." Thanawala, a past president of the Association for Social Economics, describes Danner's efforts to bring personalism into economics using many of his published works while discussing its implications for the current challenges posed by globalization.
Perhaps no one today understands the economic agent as person better than Danner (2002) in his The
Economic Person. (4)
HRH Premier made the statements while receiving, at the Gudaibiya Palace today, Royal Family members, lawmakers, as well as intellectual and
economic persons, with whom he reviewed a number of issues pertaining to local affairs and the citizens' needs in various fields.
Hess's reading of how Wordsworth constructed the Lake District as "a kind of open-air museum" (173) in his Guide through the District of the Lakes tends to reiterate points made in the second chapter: that it privileges a disembodied, stationed observer and empties the landscape of social and
economic persons and activities.
