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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... obligation for individuals or society to alleviate or cure it. Thus, in this view, advocates of poor relief not only proposed infringing individual freedoms by imposing (tax) obligations to care for others, but they were ignorant of ...
... obligation for individuals or society to alleviate or cure it. Thus, in this view, advocates of poor relief not only proposed infringing individual freedoms by imposing (tax) obligations to care for others, but they were ignorant of ...
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... obligation and rights in a wider community tends to understand economic life in terms of human institutions and ... obligations. Further, in this view, human kinship also implies an ability of people to comprehend each other and conduct ...
... obligation and rights in a wider community tends to understand economic life in terms of human institutions and ... obligations. Further, in this view, human kinship also implies an ability of people to comprehend each other and conduct ...
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... OBLIGATIONS , RIGHTS , AND GOVERNMENT Any economic morality must ultimately decide how the individual ought to relate to the community and cooperate for the common good. Government is a major agent of cooperation; it enforces (or ...
... OBLIGATIONS , RIGHTS , AND GOVERNMENT Any economic morality must ultimately decide how the individual ought to relate to the community and cooperate for the common good. Government is a major agent of cooperation; it enforces (or ...
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... obligations on government. To meet its obligations, government might extract taxes from citizens; such levies infringe the autonomy of those asked to pay. Instead, autonomy ethicists see dignity as something to be earned by individuals ...
... obligations on government. To meet its obligations, government might extract taxes from citizens; such levies infringe the autonomy of those asked to pay. Instead, autonomy ethicists see dignity as something to be earned by individuals ...
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... obligations. It also would reflect common, consensus values that emerge because people, as human kin, engage in meaningful dialogue. Finally, members of the good economy will know when “enough is enough,” because the meaning of their ...
... obligations. It also would reflect common, consensus values that emerge because people, as human kin, engage in meaningful dialogue. Finally, members of the good economy will know when “enough is enough,” because the meaning of their ...
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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