LEADER 03150nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910806896603321 005 20240514044308.0 010 $a1-283-30257-8 010 $a9786613302571 010 $a0-7391-6661-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050492 035 $a(EBL)787363 035 $a(OCoLC)757261278 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000640451 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12274379 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640451 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10611735 035 $a(PQKB)11401672 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL787363 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10519537 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL330257 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC787363 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050492 100 $a20110505d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aRediscovering political economy /$fedited by Joseph Postell, Bradley C.S. Watson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham, Md. $cLexington Books$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (448 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-6660-3 311 $a0-7391-6659-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTheoretical 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. 330 $aThe 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 606 $aEconomics 615 0$aEconomics. 676 $a330 701 $aPostell$b Joseph$f1979-$01626965 701 $aWatson$b Bradley C. S.$f1961-$01626966 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806896603321 996 $aRediscovering political economy$93963307 997 $aUNINA