Reckoning with Markets The Role of Moral Reflection in Economics

Name: Reckoning with Markets The Role of Moral Reflection in Economics
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ISBN: 9780199763702

ISBN-10: 0199763704

ISBN-13: 9780199763702

Edition: 2011

Authors: James Halteman, Edd S. Noell

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Undergraduate economics students begin and end their study of economics with the simple claim that economics is value free. Only in a policy role will values and beliefs enter into economic work; there can be little meaningful dialogue by economists about such personal views and opinions. This view, now well over 200 years old, has been challenged by heterodox thinkers in economics, and philosophers and social scientists outside the discipline all along the way. However, much of the debate in modern times has been narrowly focused on philosophical methodological issues on one hand or theological/sectarian concerns on the other. None of this filters down to the typical undergraduate even in…

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List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/16/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 8.39" wide x 5.79" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.858



Acknowledgments


Preface: The Ingredients of a Social Order



Setting the Stage: The Plenary Session



Moral Reflection in the Ancient Mediterranean World



Moral Reflection on Economic Justice in Scholastic Economic Thought



Adam Smith and the Prospects for Moral Reflection in Enlightenment Thinking



The Secularization of Political Economy



Heterodox Economics and the Varied Manner of Moral Reflection



On Methods and Morals



Expanding and Reorienting the Scope of Economic Thinking



Predicting, Explaining, and Understanding: An Interdisciplinary Approach


Bibliography


Index