Economics for Humans: Conscience, Care, and Commerce?

摘要

Has neoclassical economics gone too far? This economist says yes. She provides some telling examples. Rosa Hernandez is a lower-working-class mother of two children and foster mother of two more. Asked about the two-year-old who had been with her since birth, she says, It will break my heart when he is adopted. There is no way you can't get attached if you're supposed to love them and nurture them and give them a good home. But then [caseworkers and lawyers] turn around and say if you can't adopt them, then we'll take them; you must not really care about him after all. But we can't afford it; we would lose his MediCal, and he has asthma. We might lose everything; then we couldn't take care of anybody.