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Are markets moral? /
Despite the remarkable achievements of free markets--their rapid spread around the world and their success at generating economic growth--they tend to elicit anxiety. Creative destruction and destabilizing change provoke feelings of powerlessness in the face of circumstances that portend inevitable...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Despite the remarkable achievements of free markets--their rapid spread around the world and their success at generating economic growth--they tend to elicit anxiety. Creative destruction and destabilizing change provoke feelings of powerlessness in the face of circumstances that portend inevitable catastrophe. Thus, from the beginning, capitalism has been particularly stimulative for the growth of critics and doomsayers. While such early analysts as Karl Marx primarily emphasized impending economic disaster, in recent years the economic critique of capitalism has receded in favor or moral and environmental concerns. At the heart of this collection of original essays lies the question: does morality demand that we adopt a primarily supportive or critical stance toward capitalism? Some contributors suggest that the foundational principles of the capitalist system may be at odds with the central requirements of morality, while others wonder whether the practical workings of markets slowly erode moral character or hinder the just distribution of goods. Still others consider whether morality itself does not demand the economic freedom constitutive of the capitalist system. The essays in Are Markets Moral? represent a broad array of disciplines, from economics to philosophy to law, and place particular emphasis on the experiences of non-Western countries, where the latest chapters in capitalism's history are now being written. -- Dust jacket flaps. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 250 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812295405 0812295404 |