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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... virtues that would contribute to long-term economic independence. The economic welfare of the self was the goal of his value system. At about the same time, the Quaker John Woolman invoked the biblical notion of human kinship to think ...
... virtues that would contribute to long-term economic independence. The economic welfare of the self was the goal of his value system. At about the same time, the Quaker John Woolman invoked the biblical notion of human kinship to think ...
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... virtues; the moral status of economic inequality; the mandate for human dignity; and the moral boundaries to economic activity. Taken together, these constructs imply alternative notions of the economic good. Before turning to these ...
... virtues; the moral status of economic inequality; the mandate for human dignity; and the moral boundaries to economic activity. Taken together, these constructs imply alternative notions of the economic good. Before turning to these ...
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... VIRTUES Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard maxims provide a good example of the virtues of autonomy morality: self-reliance was at the center, surrounded by a host of minor virtues, such as thrift, honoring one's debts, and careful ...
... VIRTUES Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard maxims provide a good example of the virtues of autonomy morality: self-reliance was at the center, surrounded by a host of minor virtues, such as thrift, honoring one's debts, and careful ...
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... virtue in the writing of relational moralists, starting with figures such as William Penn, is self-restraint—knowing when too much injures relationships—whether in pressing one's advantage in competition, or in consuming luxuries, or ...
... virtue in the writing of relational moralists, starting with figures such as William Penn, is self-restraint—knowing when too much injures relationships—whether in pressing one's advantage in competition, or in consuming luxuries, or ...
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... virtue rewarded only with economic insecurity; people confronted the possibility that they had much in common. New Deal programs, for the first time, acknowledged a social responsibility to counteract wide-scale economic insecurity ...
... virtue rewarded only with economic insecurity; people confronted the possibility that they had much in common. New Deal programs, for the first time, acknowledged a social responsibility to counteract wide-scale economic insecurity ...
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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