Rediscovering political economy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joseph Postell, Bradley C.S. Watson

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Disciplina: 330
• Soggetto topico: Economics
• Altri autori: PostellJoseph <1979-> WatsonBradley C. S. <1961->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Rediscovering political economy
• ISBN: 1-283-30257-8; 9786613302571; 0-7391-6661-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781730703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II