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Autore: | Foley Duncan K |
Titolo: | Adam's fallacy [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to economic theology / / Duncan K. Foley |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2006 |
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.: | 9910778451003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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