America's economic moralists : a history of rival ethics and economics / Donald E. Frey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frey, Donald E., 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economists--United States--History.

Economists.

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Economics.

Economics--Sociological aspects--United States.

Social ethics--United States--History.

Social ethics.

Economics--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index.

ISBN:

9780791493663

0791493660

9781441612595

1441612599

OCLC:

369172626