America's economic moralists : a history of rival ethics and economics
Donald E. Frey
| Year of publication: |
2009
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| Authors: | Frey, Donald E. |
| Publisher: |
Albany, NY : State Univ. of New York Press |
| Subject: | Wirtschaftsgeschichte | Economic history | Wirtschaftsethik | Economic ethics | Sozialethik | Social ethics | Christliche Sozialethik | Christian social ethics | USA | United States | Geschichte 1750-2000 | Marktwirtschaft | Kapitalismus | Moral |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | VII, 239 S. 24 cm |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index Introduction -- 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 -- Summary, assessments, and a projection. |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-9351-2 ; 978-0-7914-9351-9 |
| Classification: | USA ; Philosophie und Theorie der Volkswirtschaft |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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