America's economic moralists [[electronic resource] ] : a history of rival ethics and economics / / Donald E. Frey

• Autore: Frey Donald E. <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.092/27
• Soggetto topico: Economists - United States - History; Economics - Moral and ethical aspects - United States; Economics - Sociological aspects - United States; Social ethics - United States - History; Economics - United States - History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Traces the history of two rival American economic moralities from colonial times to the present.
• Titolo autorizzato: America's economic moralists
• ISBN: 0-7914-9366-0; 1-4416-1259-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825293703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II