In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging...

This book is a collection of specially commissioned chapters from philosophers, economists, political and behavioral economists, cognitive and organizational psychologists, computer scientists, sociologists and permutations thereof as befits the polymathic subject of this book Herbert Simon

Einleitung - Wie dieses Buch entstand und was es leisten soll -- Wirtschaft, Gerechtigkeit und Ethik -- Wirtschaften und Religion -- Wirtschaften als „richtiges" Handeln: Management -- Wirtschaftliche Techniken -- Wirtschaft und Staat -- Ökonomische Klassik, Neoklassik und Makroökonomie. -...

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers....