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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806896603321

Titolo

Rediscovering political economy / / edited by Joseph Postell, Bradley C.S. Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2011

ISBN

1-283-30257-8

9786613302571

0-7391-6661-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PostellJoseph <1979->

WatsonBradley C. S. <1961->

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Theoretical foundations of political economy -- The moral basis for economic liberty / Robert A. Sirico -- Restoring sound economic thinking : what natural law taught us / John Mueller -- The idea of commerce in enlightenment political thought / Alan Levine -- Understanding Friedrich Engels (and Marx) and Adam Smith on economic organization and the price mechanism / Samuel Hollander -- Ten (mostly) Austrian insights for these trying times / Bruce Caldwell -- Political economy and American economic experience -- Promoting the general welfare : political economy for a free republic / Richard Wagner -- The economic theory of the American founding / Thomas G. West -- Hamilton and Jefferson: two visions of democratic capitalism / Peter McNamara -- The right kind of regulation: how the founders thought about regulation / Joseph Postell -- American banking from birth to bust, and all points in between / Larry Schweikart.

Sommario/riassunto

The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy-an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories mutually inform each other. Only through a restoration of political economy can we reconnect economics to the



human good. Economics as a discipline deals with the production and distribution of goods and services. Yet the study of economics can-indeed must-be employed in our striving for the best