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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825293703321

Autore

Frey Donald E. <1941->

Titolo

America's economic moralists [[electronic resource] ] : a history of rival ethics and economics / / Donald E. Frey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009

ISBN

0-7914-9366-0

1-4416-1259-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Disciplina

174.092/27

Soggetti

Economists - United States - History

Economics - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Economics - Sociological aspects - United States

Social ethics - United States - History

Economics - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Colonial faith: work, wealth, and the wider welfare -- Acting for self's sake: the later colonial era -- Laissez-Faire for Americans -- Ethics better than the morals of hermits -- Religious socialism: the communal Moravians -- Abolition: human dignity as a boundary to markets -- Social Darwinists of different species -- New influences in economics -- The social gospel and Catholic thought around 1900 -- The 1920s and 1930s: depressed old values -- Too agnostic, too certain: welfare economics, Chicago economics -- Moralists of twentieth-century capitalism -- Unconventional alternatives to the conventional wisdom -- An ecumenical consensus on economic ethics -- Summary, assessments, and a projection.

Sommario/riassunto

Traces the history of two rival American economic moralities from colonial times to the present.