Households : On the Moral Architecture of the Economy /
What human purpose does an economy serve? In this pathbreaking book, William James Booth examines what he calls the moral architecture of the economy-its significance in our ethical world and the influence of social values on its institutions. Turning to the most fundamental economic unit, Booth exp...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE THE OIKOS: BEAUTY DOMINATION SCARCITY
- 1. Odysseus' Household
- 2. The Political Economy of the Ancient Household
- PART TWO THE MORAL ECONOMY OF THE LIBERAL HOUSEHOLD
- 3. Despotic and Conjugal Households
- 4. Lions and Pole-Cats: Domination as the Summum Malum
- 5. The New Body Economic: The Contract Community and Its Economy
- 6. Public Homes, Private Homes: Society and Economy in Classical Liberalism
- PART THREE MARX AND THE NEW HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY
- 7. The Dissolution of the Old World
- 8. Markets
- 9. The Household Economy Restored
- 10. Marx, Markets, and Household Economies
- CONCLUSION "THIS HOUSEHOLD IS WHAT IS COMMON TO US"
- INDEX