Reckoning with markets [electronic resource] : the role of moral reflection in economics / James Halteman and Edd S. Noell
- Author:
- Halteman, Jim
- Published:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators:
- Noell, Edd
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Setting the Stage: The Plenary Session -- 2.Moral Reflection in the Ancient Mediterranean World -- 3.Moral Reflection on Economic Justice in Scholastic Economic Thought -- 4.Adam Smith and the Prospects for Moral Reflection in Enlightenment Thinking -- 5.The Secularization of Political Economy -- 6.Heterodox Economics and the Varied Manner of Moral Reflection -- 7.On Methods and Morals -- 8.Expanding and Reorienting the Scope of Economic Thinking -- 9.Predicting, Explaining, and Understanding: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
- Summary:
- This book presents the notion that economic thinking cannot escape value judgements at any level and that this understanding has been the dominant view throughout most of history. It shows how, from ancient times, people who thought about economic matters integrated moral reflection into their thinking.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780199932252 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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