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Humanism challenges materialism in economics and economic history /

Most of the existing research on economic history relies either solely or ultimately on calculations of material interest to explain the major events of the modern world. However, care must be taken not to rely too heavily on materialism, with its associated confidence in perfectly rational actors t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Floud, Roderick (Editor ), Hejeebu, Santhi (Editor ), Mitch, David Franklin, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Philanthropic endeavors, saving behavior, and bourgeois virtues / Richard Sutch
  • Queering McCloskey's feminism in location and history / Robin L. Bartlett
  • The spread of pro- and anticapitalist beliefs / Stanley L. Engerman
  • Following in the path of Deirdre McCloskey: the Lutheran ethic and the Nordic spirit of social democracy / Robert H. Nelson
  • Economics with varying values: McCloskey's humanism and fundamental insights / Jack A. Goldstone
  • Liberal advocacy and neoliberal rule: on McCloskey's ambivalence / Stephen G. Engelmann
  • Economics as the conversation about the conversation of the market / Peter J. Boettke and Virgil Henry Storr
  • Rhetoric and public policy: pathos, ideology, and the specter of health care / Paul Turpin
  • Humanism, materialism, and epistemology: rhetoric of economics as styles in action / John S. Nelson
  • McCloskey at Chicago / Steven E. Landsburg.