America's Economic Moralists
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America's Economic Moralists

A History of Rival Ethics and Economics

  1. 247 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

America's Economic Moralists

A History of Rival Ethics and Economics

About this book

Traces the history of two rival American economic moralities from colonial times to the present.

Since colonial times, two discernable schools have debated major issues of economic morality in America. The central norm of one morality is the freedom, or autonomy, of the individual and defines virtues, vices, obligations, and rights by how they contribute to that freedom. The other morality is relational and defines economic ethics in terms of behaviors mandated by human connectedness. America's Economic Moralists shows how each morality has been composed of an ethical outlook paired with a compatible economic theory, each supporting the other. Donald E. Frey adopts a multidisciplinary approach, not only drawing upon historical economic thought, American religious thought, and ethics, but also finding threads of economic morality in novels, government policies, and popular writings. He uses the history of these two supported yet very different views to explain the culture of excess that permeates the morality of today's economic landscape.

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Information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780791493526, 9780791493519
eBook ISBN
9780791493663
Topic
History
Subtopic
Economic Theory
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. AMERICA’S ECONOMIC MORALISTS
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Introduction
  5. 2. Colonial Faith: Work,Wealth, and the Wider Welfare
  6. 3. Acting for Self ’s Sake: The Later Colonial Era
  7. 4. Laissez-Faire for Americans
  8. 5. Ethics Better than the Morals of Hermits
  9. 6. Religious Socialism: The Communal Moravians
  10. 7. Abolition: Human Dignity as a Boundary to Markets
  11. 8. Social Darwinists of Different Species
  12. 9. New Influences in Economics
  13. 10. The Social Gospel and Catholic Thought Around 1900
  14. 11. The 1920s and 1930s: Depressed Old Values
  15. 12. Too Agnostic, Too Certain: Welfare Economics, Chicago Economics
  16. 13. Moralists of Twentieth-Century Capitalism
  17. 14. Unconventional Alternatives to the Conventional Wisdom
  18. 15. An Ecumenical Consensuson Economic Ethics
  19. 16. Summary, Assessments,and a Projection
  20. Notes
  21. Works Cited
  22. Index