Greed, Self-Interest and the Shaping of Economics
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Greed, Self-Interest and the Shaping of Economics

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Greed, Self-Interest and the Shaping of Economics

About this book

Since 2008, profound questions have been asked about the driving forces and self-regulating potential of the economic system, political control and morality. With opinion turning against markets and self-interest, economists found themselves on the wrong side of the argument. This book explores how the past of economics can contribute to today's debates.

The book considers how economics took shape as philosophers probed into the viability of commercial society and its potential to generate positive-sum outcomes. It explains how dreams of affluence, morality and happiness were built upon human greed and vanity. It covers the bumpy road of the construction and reconstruction of this dream, exploring the debate on the foundations, conditions and limitations of the idea of the social utility of greed and vanity. Revisiting this debate provides a rich source of ideas in rethinking economics and the basic beliefs concerning our economic system today.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781351977807
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Greed, Self-Interest and the Shaping of Economics- Front Cover
  2. Greed, Self-Interest and the Shaping of Economics
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1: Shifting narratives and the emergence of political economy
  9. Chapter 2: The rise of greed in early economic thought: from deadly sin to social benefit
  10. Chapter 3: The Mandevillean triangle
  11. Chapter 4: Adam Smith’s struggle with Rousseau’s critique of commercial society
  12. Chapter 5: Self-interest after Smith: from passion to behavioural assumption
  13. Chapter 6: The wheels of ‘greed, and the war amongst the greedy’
  14. Chapter 7: The neoclassical turn and the fading-out of greed and pride
  15. Chapter 8: ‘It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity’
  16. Index