America's economic moralists : a history of rival ethics and economics /
"Since colonial times, two discernable schools have debated major issues of economic morality in America. The central norm of one morality is the freedom, or autonomy, of the individual and defines virtues, vices, obligations, and rights by how they contribute to that freedom. The other moralit...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, NY :
SUNY Press,
©2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Colonial faith : work, wealth, and the wider welfare
- Acting for self's sake : the later colonial era
- Laissez-faire for Americans
- Ethics better than the morals of hermits
- Religious socialism : the communal Moravians
- Abolition : human dignity as a boundary to markets
- Social Darwinists of different species
- New influences in economics
- The social gospel and Catholic thought around 1900
- The 1920s and 1930s : depressed old values
- Too agnostic, too certain : welfare economics, Chicago economics
- Moralists of twentieth-century capitalism
- Unconventional alternatives to the conventional wisdom
- An ecumenical consensus on economic ethics.