I’d love to learn more about what economists have to say about the value of time. So far, here’s what I’ve done:
(1) Taken college courses in introductory micro, macro, game theory, and financial theory.
(2) Asked all the econ majors and professors I know if they know how to value time
(3) Read the Wikipedia articles on non-standard economics to see if there were any branches of economics that might deal more subtly with time
(4) Browsed bookstores in several major cities to see if the social science sections had books about how to measure time.
For whatever it’s worth, I’m not “anti-econ.” Isn’t economics just the study of how people should and do trade off values against each other, together with some of the more interesting consequences? I see this piece as an attempt to ask questions inside economics. It’s not a rigorous question, but, then, I’m just starting out.
If you really do know some people who have asked these questions before, please, have mercy and send me a link.
I’d love to learn more about what economists have to say about the value of time. So far, here’s what I’ve done:
(1) Taken college courses in introductory micro, macro, game theory, and financial theory. (2) Asked all the econ majors and professors I know if they know how to value time (3) Read the Wikipedia articles on non-standard economics to see if there were any branches of economics that might deal more subtly with time (4) Browsed bookstores in several major cities to see if the social science sections had books about how to measure time.
For whatever it’s worth, I’m not “anti-econ.” Isn’t economics just the study of how people should and do trade off values against each other, together with some of the more interesting consequences? I see this piece as an attempt to ask questions inside economics. It’s not a rigorous question, but, then, I’m just starting out.
If you really do know some people who have asked these questions before, please, have mercy and send me a link.