Henry C. Clark, Eric Allison

Economic Morality

Ancient to Modern Readings

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides an integrated and wide-ranging set of primary-source readings on the relationship between moral values and economic activity, as articulated by some of the leading figures in Western civilization.

Produktdetails

• Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 719g
• ISBN-13: 9780739192504
• ISBN-10: 0739192507
• Artikelnr.: 41374303

Autorenporträt

Henry C. Clark is a visiting professor in the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth College. Eric Allison is the associate director of the Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism at Clemson University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0000 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0000 PART ONE: Greeks and Romans 1.1 Plato
Republic
Bk. II.369-374
VIII.550-556 1.2 Plato
Laws
Bk. V.742-745
XI.913-920 1.3 Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
I.4-5
9-10
V.5 1.4 Aristotle
Politics
I.8-11 1.5 Cicero
De Officiis (On Duties)
I.14
III.15-17 1.6 Ovid
"The Myth of King Midas" in Metamorphoses
Bk. XI.81-145 1.7 Plutarch "Of the Love of Wealth
" in Moralia 1.8 Plutarch
"Life of Lycurgus
" in Parallel Lives
§9-11 PART TWO: Religious Traditions 2.1 The Bible The Old Testament: Deuteronomy 15:1-11
23:19-20
Proverbs 11:28
13:11 The Apocrypha: Sirach 26:29-30
31:1-11
38:24-34 The New Testament: Matthew 6:19-33
19:16-20:16
22:16-22
25:13-30
John 2:13-16
Acts 2:42-47
4:31-35
I Timothy 6:9-10
II Thessalonians 3:7-10 2.2 Benedict of Nursia
ch. 48
"Of Daily Manual Labor
" in The Rule of St. Benedict 2.3 Qur'an: Surah 2:261-281
Surah 4:29-40
Surah 9:34-35
Surah 102:1-8 2.4 Hugh of St. Victor
Didascalicon
Bk. 2
chs. 20 ("Mechanical Arts") and 23 ("Commerce") 2.5 Francis of Assisi
"Instances Against Money" in The Lives of St. Francis of Assisi by Thomas of Celano XXXV.65-XXXVIII.68 2.6 Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
IIa IIae Q. 66 Art. 1-2
Q. 77 Art. 1-4 2.7 Ibn Khaldun
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
ch. 5
§1-2
5-6
8-9
14 PART THREE: Renaissance and Reformation 3.1 Benedetto Cotrugli
Treatise on Merchandise
bk. 3 3.2 Thomas More
Utopia
final pages 3.3 Martin Luther
"On Trading and Usury" PART FOUR: The Seventeenth Century 4.1 Hugo Grotius-The Rights of War and Peace
I: v-xi 4.2 Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
ch. 13 4.3 Pieter De la Court
Political Maxims of the State of Holland
chs. 1
14-15 4.4 John Locke
Second Treatise of Civil Government
ch. 5
"Of Property" PART FIVE: The Eighteenth Century 5.1 Bernard Mandeville
"The Grumbling Hive
" in Fable of the Bees 5.2 Voltaire
"Presbyterianism" and "Commerce" in Philosophical Letters 5.3 Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws
XX.1-2 5.4 David Hume
"Of Commerce
" in Political Discourses 5.5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Among Men
pt. 2 5.6 Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
V.2.7-16 5.7 Adam Smith
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
I.ii PART SIX: The Nineteenth Century 6.1 Benjamin Constant
"On Ancient and Modern Liberty Compared" 6.2 Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
vol. 2
bk. 2
pt. 2
chs. 2
8
10
11
13
14 6.3 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
What is Property?
selections 6.4 Karl Marx
"Alienated (or 'Estranged') Labor" in Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 6.5 Frederic Bastiat
The Law
selections 6.6 Henry Thoreau
"Economy" in Walden 6.7 Samuel Smiles
Self Help ch. 1
paras. 1-9 6.8 William Graham Sumner
"What Social Classes Owe Each Other" 6.9 Andrew Carnegie
"The Gospel of Wealth" 6.10 Pope Leo XIII
"Rerum Novarum
" paras. 1-15
19-20 34-38 PART SEVEN: The Twentieth Century 7.1 Georg Simmel
"Individual Freedom" in The Philosophy of Money
ch. 4 7.2 Max Weber
"The Spirit of Capitalism" in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 7.3 Marcel Mauss
"Moral Conclusions" in The Gift 7.4 John Maynard Keynes
"Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" 7.5 Ludwig von Mises
Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
ch. 1 7.6 Ayn Rand
"The Meaning of Money" in Atlas Shrugged
pt. II
ch. 2 7.7 Friedrich von Hayek
"The Moral Element in Free Enterprise" 7.8 Milton Friedman
"The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
" New York Times Magazine
Sept. 13
1970 7.9 John Rawls
"The Concept of Justice in Political Economy
" in A Theory of Justice
ch. 5
§41 7.10 Robert Nozick
"Distributive Justice
" in Anarchy
State
and Utopia
pt. II
ch. 7 7.11 Daniel Bell
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
pt. 1
ch. 1. 7.12 Irving Kristol
"When Virtue Loses All Her Loveliness
" in Two Cheers for Capitalism Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0000