ISBN:
9780739194744
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (167 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Free Market and the Human Condition : Essays on Economics and Culture
DDC:
330.122
Keywords:
Capitalism - Social aspects
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Capitalism - Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈span〉〈span style=""font-style:italic;""〉The Free Market and the Human Condition 〈/span〉〈span〉explores the human condition as situated in the free market from a variety of academic disciplines. By relying upon contributors who approach the topic from their respective disciplines, the book provides an accumulated picture of the free market, the human condition, and the relationship between them.〈/span〉〈/span〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; 1 Introduction; I: The Philosophical Condition; 2 Forbidden Delicacies: The Ideal City, the Luxurious City, and the Marketplace in Plato's Republic; 3 Aristotle on the Occupy Movement and Financial Inequality; 4 Communio, Economics, and the Anthropology of Liberalism; II: The Familial Condition; 5 Marriage and the Marketplace in Jane Austen's Emma and Mansfield Park; 6 Closing America's "Factory of Individual Character": The Social and Political Consequences of a Bankrupt Home Economy; III: The Public Condition
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Why Business Schools Exist: On the Intellectual Origins of Business Schools in Nineteenth Century France and America8 Philosophy, Economics, and the Supply Side of the Archaeological Black Market; 9 Rehabilitation or Incapacitation: The Economics of U.S. Correctional Policy; About the Contributors; Index
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