Rediscovering Political Economy

Herausgeber: Postell, Joseph; Watson, Bradley C. S.

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Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy in an attempt to reconnect the discipline of economics to larger discussions about the human good. The book shows how political ideas and economic theories can-and must-inform each other, and is essential reading for anyone interested in politics, economics, history, and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780739166604
• ISBN-10: 0739166603
• Artikelnr.: 33390268

Autorenporträt

Edited by Joseph Postell and Bradley C. S. Watson - Contributions by Bruce Caldwell; Samuel Hollander; Alan Levine; Peter McNamara; John Mueller; Larry Schweikart; Robert A. Sirico; Richard Wagner; Bradley C. S. Watson and Thomas G. West

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: The Moral Basis for Economic Liberty 4 Chapter 2:
Restoring Sound Economic Thinking: What Natural Law Taught Us 5 Chapter 3:
The Idea of Commerce in Enlightenment Political Thought 6 Chapter 4:
Understanding Friedrich Engels (and Marx) and Adam Smith on Economic
Organization and the Price Mechanism 7 Chapter 5: Ten (Mostly) Austrian
Insights for These Trying Times 8 Part II: Political Economy and American
Economic Experience 9 Chapter 6: Promoting the General Welfare: Political
Economy for a Free Republic 10 Chapter 7: The Economic Theory of the
American Founding 11 Chapter 8: Hamilton and Jefferson: Two Visions of
Democratic Capitalism 12 Chapter 9: The Right Kind of Regulation: How the
Founders Thought about Regulation 13 Chapter 10: American Banking from
Birth to Bust, and All Points in Between