Chapter 1: Voluntary Simplicity: Characterization, Select Psychological Implications, and Societal Consequences
I. Voluntary Simplicity Characterization
II. Psychological Implications: Simplicity and Satiation
III. Social Consequences of Voluntary Simplicity
Chapter 2: A Communitarian Note on Stakeholder Theory
I. 'Private Property' and 'Incorporation' as Social Constructs
II. Corporations are the Property of ALL Who Invest in Them III. Mechanisms of Representation: Employees
IV. Representation of Other Constituents
V. Stakeholders and the Common Good
Chapter 3: Opening the Preferences: A Socio-Economic Research Agenda
I. Open Preference Introduced
II. Economists' Exits
III. Co-determination: Defined and Illustrated
IV. A Conceptual Clarification: Multi-Faceted and Incompatible
V. A Dynamic Approach
VI. Preferences: Process vs. Outcome
VII. A Preference to Change One's Preference
VIII.Societies, Groups, Leadership and Persuasive Advertising
IX. Normative Significance
Chapter 4: The Case for a Multiple-Utility Conception
I. Monoutility: Too Parsimonious
II. The Moral 'Utility'
III. More Than Two?
IV. Challenging Findings and Observations
V. Conclusion
Chapter 5: Normative-Affective Factors: Toward a New Decision-Making Model
I. Normative-Affective Persons
II. Toward a N/A Decision-Making Model
III. Are N/A Considerations 'Disruptive'?
IV. On Definitions, Measurments, and Alternative Interpretations
Chapter 6: Mixed-Scanning Revisted
I. Mixed-Scanning: Definition and Illustrations
II. Operationalization
III. Positive and Normative
IV. Structural Factors
V. Some Evidence
VI. In Conclusion
Chapter 7: Making Policy for Complex Systems: A Medical Model for Economics
I. Rationality and Policymaking
II. The Problem of Scientific Fragmentation
III. Resynthesis: The Elusive Solution
IV. Economics and the Medical Model: The Differences
V. Conclusion Chapter 8: The Mapping of Man
Chapter 9: Whose Moralty? Which Community? What Interests? Socio-Economic and Communitarian Perspectives by Richard M. Coughlin
I. Introduction
II. A Brief Recent History of Socio-Economics and Communitarianism
III. Points of Divergence between Socio-Economics and Communitarianism
IV. The Importance of Political Context
V. Missing Pieces
VI. Conclusion

These essays deal with various aspects of a new, rising field, socio­ economics. The field is seeking to combine the variables studied by neoclassical economists with those typically studied by other social sciences. The combination is expected to provide a better understanding of economic behavior and the economy as well as society; make more reliable predictions; and be more in line with normative values we seek to uphold. The new field, though, may be less elegant mathematically and possibly less parsimonious than neoclassical economics. Some of my ideas on this subject are included in a previously published book, The Moral Dimension: TowardA New Economics (New York: The Free Press, 1988). They also led to a formation of an international society of several thousand scholars who are interested in the field, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. The essays at hand are in effect grouped. The first two, previously published respectively in the Journal of Economic Psychology and Business Ethics Quarterly, reflect my most recent thinking. They both have a utopian streak that may stand out especially in these days when unfeathered capitalism is the rage. The first points to people, who far from making consuming ever more their life's project, seek a less affiuent way oflife. It examines the psychological foundations and the social consequences of such an approach.