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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825699003321

Titolo

The free market and the human condition the free market and the human condition : essays on economics and culture  / / edited Lee Trepanier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-9475-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Free enterprise - Social aspects

Capitalism - Social aspects

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

Contents; 1 Introduction; I: The Philosophical Condition; 2 Forbidden Delicacies: The Ideal City, the Luxurious City, and the Marketplace in Plato's Republic; 3 Aristotle on the Occupy Movement and Financial Inequality; 4 Communio, Economics, and the Anthropology of Liberalism; II: The Familial Condition; 5 Marriage and the Marketplace in Jane Austen's Emma and Mansfield Park; 6 Closing America's "Factory of Individual Character": The Social and Political Consequences of a Bankrupt Home Economy; III: The Public Condition

7 Why Business Schools Exist: On the Intellectual Origins of Business Schools in Nineteenth Century France and America8 Philosophy, Economics, and the Supply Side of the Archaeological Black Market; 9 Rehabilitation or Incapacitation: The Economics of U.S. Correctional Policy; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Free Market and the Human Condition </span><span>explores the human condition as situated in the free market from a variety of academic disciplines. By relying upon contributors who approach the topic from their respective disciplines, the book provides an accumulated picture of the free market, the human condition, and the relationship between them.</span></span>