In contemporary non-mainstream economic debate, it is widely thought that the functioning of a market economy needs a set of rules (i.e. institutions) which bind agents in their behaviour, allowing efficient outcomes. This idea is contrary to the General Equilibrium Model (GEM) where markets are...

Preface and acknowledgments -- Ethics and economics -- Introduction -- Eudaimonia : the ancients and the good life -- The impact of the ancients -- Conceptions of rationality: thin, thick, and ancient -- Ethics and public policy -- The problem of pathological consumption -- Economics, ethics and...

John Locke, utilitarian ethics and the moral sense -- Lord Shaftesbury, utilitarian ethics and the moral sense -- Two Shaftesbury critics: Bernard Mandeville and John Brown -- Francis Hutcheson and the Hutcheson-Locke relation -- David Hume, utilitarian ethics, the moral sense and distributive...

Introduction: Exploring Adam Smith's theological contexts, sources, and significance / Jordan J. Ballor and Cornelis van der Kooi -- Bourgeois culture : understanding Adam Smith's moral horizon / Govert J. Buijs -- A survey of Adam Smith's theological sources / Jordan J. Ballor -- Calvin and...

This book considers the relationship between Hayek and Mill, taking issues with Hayek's criticism of Mill and providing a broader perspective of the liberal tradition. Featuring contributions from the likes of Ross Emmett, Leon Montes and Robert Garnett, these chapters ask whether Hayek had an...