02816nam 2200625Ia 450 991082529370332120240417035435.00-7914-9366-01-4416-1259-9(CKB)1000000000756706(OCoLC)369172626(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587095(SSID)ssj0000102572(PQKBManifestationID)11113760(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102572(PQKBWorkID)10051092(PQKB)10046439(MiAaPQ)EBC3407897(Au-PeEL)EBL3407897(CaPaEBR)ebr10587095(EXLCZ)99100000000075670620080930d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAmerica's economic moralists[electronic resource] a history of rival ethics and economics /Donald E. Frey1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20091 online resource (250 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-9351-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index.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.Traces the history of two rival American economic moralities from colonial times to the present.EconomistsUnited StatesHistoryEconomicsMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesEconomicsSociological aspectsUnited StatesSocial ethicsUnited StatesHistoryEconomicsUnited StatesHistoryEconomistsHistory.EconomicsMoral and ethical aspectsEconomicsSociological aspectsSocial ethicsHistory.EconomicsHistory.174.092/27Frey Donald E.1941-1676306MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825293703321America's economic moralists4042418UNINA