Adam's fallacy : a guide to economic theology / / Duncan K. Foley

• Autore: Foley Duncan K
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 265 p. ) : ill
• Disciplina: 330.153
• Soggetto topico: Economics - Philosophy
• Classificazione: QC 100
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Adam's Vision -- 2. Gloomy Science -- 3 . The Severest Critic -- 4.On the Margins -- 6. Grand Illusions -- Reading Further -- Appendix -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends.
• Titolo autorizzato: Adam's fallacy
• ISBN: 0-674-26352-9; 0-674-02707-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808460803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II