03150nam 2200577 a 450 991080689660332120240514044308.01-283-30257-897866133025710-7391-6661-1(CKB)2550000000050492(EBL)787363(OCoLC)757261278(SSID)ssj0000640451(PQKBManifestationID)12274379(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640451(PQKBWorkID)10611735(PQKB)11401672(Au-PeEL)EBL787363(CaPaEBR)ebr10519537(CaONFJC)MIL330257(MiAaPQ)EBC787363(EXLCZ)99255000000005049220110505d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRediscovering political economy /edited by Joseph Postell, Bradley C.S. Watson1st ed.Lanham, Md. Lexington Books20111 online resource (448 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-6660-3 0-7391-6659-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Theoretical foundations of political economy -- The moral basis for economic liberty / Robert A. Sirico -- Restoring sound economic thinking : what natural law taught us / John Mueller -- The idea of commerce in enlightenment political thought / Alan Levine -- Understanding Friedrich Engels (and Marx) and Adam Smith on economic organization and the price mechanism / Samuel Hollander -- Ten (mostly) Austrian insights for these trying times / Bruce Caldwell -- Political economy and American economic experience -- Promoting the general welfare : political economy for a free republic / Richard Wagner -- The economic theory of the American founding / Thomas G. West -- Hamilton and Jefferson: two visions of democratic capitalism / Peter McNamara -- The right kind of regulation: how the founders thought about regulation / Joseph Postell -- American banking from birth to bust, and all points in between / Larry Schweikart.The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy-an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories mutually inform each other. Only through a restoration of political economy can we reconnect economics to the human good. Economics as a discipline deals with the production and distribution of goods and services. Yet the study of economics can-indeed must-be employed in our striving for the best EconomicsEconomics.330Postell Joseph1979-1626965Watson Bradley C. S.1961-1626966MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806896603321Rediscovering political economy3963307UNINA