Economics of good and evil : the quest for economic meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street /

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Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the ""Young Guns"" and one of the ""five hot minds in economics"" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sedláček, Tomáš, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Checo
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Economics > Philosophy.
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Good and evil.
Civilization > History.
Literature and morals.
Économie politique > Philosophie.
Économie politique > Aspect moral.
Civilisation > Histoire.
Littérature et morale.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Civilization.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I: Ancient economics and beyond
  • The epic of Gilgamesh: on effectiveness, immortality, and the economics of friendship
  • The Old Testament: earthliness and goodness
  • Ancient Greece
  • Christianity: spirituality in the material world
  • Descartes the mechanic
  • Bernard Mandeville's beehive of vice
  • Adam Smith, blacksmith of economics
  • II: Blasphemous thoughts
  • Need for greed: the history of want
  • Progress, new Adam, and Sabbath economics
  • The axis of good and evil and the Bibles of economics
  • The history of the invisible hand of the market and homo economicus
  • The history of animal spirits: the dream never sleeps
  • Metamathematics
  • Masters of truth: science, myths, and faith
  • Conclusion: where the wild things are.

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