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UNINA9910825293703321 |
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Autore |
Frey Donald E. <1941-> |
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Titolo |
America's economic moralists [[electronic resource] ] : a history of rival ethics and economics / / Donald E. Frey |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-7914-9366-0 |
1-4416-1259-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Traces the history of two rival American economic moralities from colonial times to the present. |
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