02351nam 2200541Ia 450 991077845100332120230828223720.00-674-26352-90-674-02707-810.4159/9780674027077(CKB)1000000000805600(StDuBDS)AH23050598(DE-B1597)457620(OCoLC)1049618695(OCoLC)1054879495(OCoLC)979742636(DE-B1597)9780674027077(Au-PeEL)EBL3300524(CaPaEBR)ebr10318521(OCoLC)651878251(MiAaPQ)EBC3300524(EXLCZ)99100000000080560020060821d2006 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAdam's fallacy[electronic resource] a guide to economic theology /Duncan K. FoleyCambridge, Mass. ;London Harvard University Press20061 online resource (xv, 265 p. ) illIncludes index.0-674-02729-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexThis 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.EconomicsPhilosophyEconomicsPhilosophy.330.153QC 100rvkFoley Duncan K125456MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778451003321Adam's fallacy3746467UNINA