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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... affirms the common dignity of members of a community. The virtues of relational moralists tend to have a familiar ring, because they echo traditional religious values: respect for the “image of God” in others, love of INTRODUCTION 5.
... affirms the common dignity of members of a community. The virtues of relational moralists tend to have a familiar ring, because they echo traditional religious values: respect for the “image of God” in others, love of INTRODUCTION 5.
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... traditional ways of life or in the history of a community. That is, the multiple dimensions of human life warn against measuring an economy's goodness only by its efficiency. The good economy would affirm the equal value of each member ...
... traditional ways of life or in the history of a community. That is, the multiple dimensions of human life warn against measuring an economy's goodness only by its efficiency. The good economy would affirm the equal value of each member ...
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... traditional economists typically endorsed. This cast serious doubt on how well economists had interpreted their own preferred moral frame of reference. Nobel-winner in economics Amartya Sen argued that the self-interested “economic man ...
... traditional economists typically endorsed. This cast serious doubt on how well economists had interpreted their own preferred moral frame of reference. Nobel-winner in economics Amartya Sen argued that the self-interested “economic man ...
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... traditional constraints. At the same time, Puritan moralists insisted that individualism did not amount to autonomy, lack of obligation to God and neighbor. As Calvinists, Puritans believed that God graciously elected persons to the ...
... traditional constraints. At the same time, Puritan moralists insisted that individualism did not amount to autonomy, lack of obligation to God and neighbor. As Calvinists, Puritans believed that God graciously elected persons to the ...
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... traditional view of very serious Puritans. Puritan relational morality was stated in terms of obligation, or duty to obey God's moral law, which was revealed and recorded in scripture and spelled out details of proper relational ...
... traditional view of very serious Puritans. Puritan relational morality was stated in terms of obligation, or duty to obey God's moral law, which was revealed and recorded in scripture and spelled out details of proper relational ...
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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