America's economic moralists [[electronic resource] ] : a history of rival ethics and economics / / Donald E. Frey
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| Autore: |
Frey Donald E. <1941->
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| Titolo: |
America's economic moralists [[electronic resource] ] : a history of rival ethics and economics / / Donald E. Frey
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
| 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. |
| 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.: | 9910778098903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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