America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and EconomicsState University of New York Press, 2009 M02 6 - 247 páginas Since colonial times, two discernable schools have debated major issues of economic morality in America. The central norm of one morality is the freedom, or autonomy, of the individual and defines virtues, vices, obligations, and rights by how they contribute to that freedom. The other morality is relational and defines economic ethics in terms of behaviors mandated by human connectedness. America's Economic Moralists shows how each morality has been composed of an ethical outlook paired with a compatible economic theory, each supporting the other. Donald E. Frey adopts a multidisciplinary approach, not only drawing upon historical economic thought, American religious thought, and ethics, but also finding threads of economic morality in novels, government policies, and popular writings. He uses the history of these two supported yet very different views to explain the culture of excess that permeates the morality of today's economic landscape. |
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... abolitionism, Darwinism, and the 1930s Depression on economic morality. However, even in these cases, the emphasis remains on how these events influenced moral and economic ideas. THE MAJOR THEMES The alternative moralities have spun ...
... abolitionism, Darwinism, and the 1930s Depression on economic morality. However, even in these cases, the emphasis remains on how these events influenced moral and economic ideas. THE MAJOR THEMES The alternative moralities have spun ...
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... abolitionists consistently advanced a Protestant moral psychology that feared the slave owner's power would lead invariably to abuses as he tried to satisfy an ego that in principle was insatiable. Conversely, anti-abolitionists often ...
... abolitionists consistently advanced a Protestant moral psychology that feared the slave owner's power would lead invariably to abuses as he tried to satisfy an ego that in principle was insatiable. Conversely, anti-abolitionists often ...
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... abolitionists, and others held—the metaphor of kinship was central to moral thought, then great inequality would not ... abolitionist novel attacked the slave system because its callous disregard of slaves' family relationships demeaned ...
... abolitionists, and others held—the metaphor of kinship was central to moral thought, then great inequality would not ... abolitionist novel attacked the slave system because its callous disregard of slaves' family relationships demeaned ...
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... . In the most fundamental sense, excesses tend to harm human relationships, which are crucial to both the individual and community. The abolitionists made the case against slavery on the grounds that it INTRODUCTION 7.
... . In the most fundamental sense, excesses tend to harm human relationships, which are crucial to both the individual and community. The abolitionists made the case against slavery on the grounds that it INTRODUCTION 7.
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... Abolitionists made innate human dignity a moral norm that economic institutions must respect, never violate. Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel portrayed the moral stature of slaves struggling to preserve family relationships within a ...
... Abolitionists made innate human dignity a moral norm that economic institutions must respect, never violate. Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel portrayed the moral stature of slaves struggling to preserve family relationships within a ...
Contenido
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The Later Colonial Era | 25 |
4 LaissezFaire for Americans | 35 |
5 Ethics Better than the Morals of Hermits | 49 |
The Communal Moravians | 61 |
Human Dignity as a Boundary to Markets | 75 |
8 Social Darwinists of Different Species | 87 |
Depressed Old Values | 131 |
Welfare Economics Chicago Economics | 147 |
13 Moralists of TwentiethCentury Capitalism | 163 |
14 Unconventional Alternatives to the Conventional Wisdom | 177 |
15 An Ecumenical Consensuson Economic Ethics | 191 |
16 Summary Assessmentsand a Projection | 205 |
Notes | 217 |
Works Cited | 225 |
9 New Influences in Economics | 101 |
10 The Social Gospel and Catholic Thought Around 1900 | 115 |
Index | 233 |
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America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics Donald E. Frey Sin vista previa disponible - 2010 |
America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics Donald E. Frey Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics Donald E. Frey Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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