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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495870503321

Autore

Wolfe Alan <1942->

Titolo

Whose keeper? : social science and moral obligation / / Alan Wolfe [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1989

ISBN

0-585-28909-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 371 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Social ethics

Political ethics

Social sciences and state

Social sciences - Moral and ethical aspects

Welfare state

Capitalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 315-355.

Nota di contenuto

The Dubious Triumph of Economic Man -- Markets and Intimate Obligations -- Markets and Distant Obligations -- The State as a Moral Agent -- Welfare States and Moral Regulation -- States and Distant Obligations -- Sociology Without Society -- The Social Construction of Morality -- The Gift of Society.