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Autore |
Foley Duncan K |
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Titolo |
Adam's fallacy : a guide to economic theology / / Duncan K. Foley |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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0-674-26352-9 |
0-674-02707-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 265 p. ) : ill |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Adam's Vision -- 2. Gloomy Science -- 3 . The Severest Critic -- 4.On the Margins -- 6. Grand Illusions -- Reading Further -- Appendix -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends. |
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