Ethical dimensions of the economy : making use of hegel and the concepts of public and merit goods
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Ethical dimensions of the economy : making use of hegel and the concepts of public and merit goods
（Studies in economic ethics and philosophy）
Springer, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-271) and index
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内容説明
Overview This book is a philosophical reflection (using mainly Hegel, in addition to 1 Adam Smith, Kant, Marx and Catholic Social Thought) about the soc- political dimension of economics. In it I both agree and disagree with the slogan that "the least government is the best government. " I agree with the slogan, in particular as it applies to the economic domain. Adam Smith taught us that rational and self-interested individuals, left by themselves, create a more efficient and reliable economic system than one in which the government has a heavy role as was the case in his time with the merc- tile system (Smith, 14, 651). Ludwig von Mises demonstrated the same idea for the communist command economy (Hayek 1935, 87-130). I d- agree with the above mentioned slogan if it is interpreted as suggesting that we can best forget about the role of the government for a good functioning economy. Instead, I will argue that the government has an important fu- tion in creating the proper regulations and the wise institutional arran- ments which will allow the economy to flourish in a more efficient, fair and humane way. This book is interdisciplinary in nature. It is a philosophical and ethical reflection on economics. Hence, I make use of philosophical ideas, often but not exclusively those of Hegel. I reflect philosophically on economic concepts.
目次
Introduction.- Part I Normative Reflections on the Economy.- Section I Multiple Discourses on the Economy.- The Interconnection of Moral and Economic Theory.- Economics and Politics in the Architectonic of Hegel's Thought.- Section II Hegel and Political Economy.- The Ethical Function of the Economy.- The Economic Order: A Human, No a Natural Institution.- Section III Tightening the Argument.- A Philosophical Dialogue with Economists.- The Concept of 'Merit Good' and the History of Economic Thought.- Objecting t a Libertarian Attack on Governmental Functions in the Economy: The Concept of 'Public Good'.- Part II Applications.- Section I Reflections on the Political Economy in the US.- Structural Deficiencies in the American System.- Unjust Redistribution in the American System.- Section II Challenges in Transforming Command Economies.- The Role of Religion and Civil Society in a Transformed Command Economy.- Section III Philosophy of Economics and Catholic Social Though.- Overlapping Ideas: Catholic Social Thought and Recent Nobel Laureates in Economics.- Conclusion.- References.- Indices.
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