This book reflects philosophically about the socio-political dimension of economics. Part I provides normative reflections on the economy: Section I reflects on the interconnections between the multiple discourses on the economy, section II presents Hegel's claim that the economic order is an...

Natural law and the Age of Reason -- Human nature and the dignity of the human person -- The classical school of economics and the birth of capitalism -- The romantic and socialist reactions to the Industrial Revolution -- Neoclassicism, the Keynesian revolution, and other sources of dissent --...