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Since colonial times, two discernable schools have debated major issues of economic morality in America. The central norm of one morality is the freedom, or autonomy, of the individual and defines virtues, vices, obligations, and rights by how they contribute to that freedom. The other morality is relational and defines economic ethics in terms of behaviors mandated by human connectedness. America's Economic Moralists shows how each morality has been composed of an ethical outlook paired with a compatible economic theory, each supporting the other. Donald E. Frey adopts a multidisciplinary approach, not only drawing upon historical economic thought, American religious thought, and ethics, but also finding threads of economic morality in novels, government policies, and popular writings. He uses the history of these two supported yet very different views to explain the culture of excess that permeates the morality of today's economic landscape.
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Colonial Faith: Work, Wealth, and the Wider Welfare

3. Acting for Self’s Sake: The Later Colonial Era

4. Laissez-Faire for Americans

5. Ethics Better than the Morals of Hermits

6. Religious Socialism: The Communal Moravians

7. Abolition: Human Dignity as a Boundary to Markets

8. Social Darwinists of Different Species

9. New Influences in Economics

10. The Social Gospel and Catholic Thought Around

11. The 1920s and 1930s: Depressed Old Values

12. Too Agnostic, Too Certain: Welfare Economics, Chicago Economics

13. Moralists of Twentieth-Century Capitalism

14. Unconventional Alternatives to the Conventional Wisdom

15. An Ecumenical Consensus on Economic Ethics

16. Summary, Assessments, and a Projection

Notes
Works Cited
Index

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	06 février 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791493663
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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America’s Economic Moralists

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AMERICA’S ECONOMIC MORALISTS

A History of Rival Ethics and Economics

Donald E. Frey

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

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Frey, Donald E., 1941– America’s economic moralists : a history of rival ethics and economics / Donald E. Frey. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7914-9351-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Economists—United States—History. 2. Economics—Moral and ethical aspects— United States. 3. Economics—Sociological aspects—United States. 4. Social ethics— United States—History. 5. Economics—United States—History. I. Title. HB119.A3F73 2009 174.092'27—dc22 2008042320

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Chapter One Introduction

Contents

Chapter Two Colonial Faith: Work, Wealth, and the Wider Welfare

Chapter Three Acting for Self’s Sake: The Later Colonial Era

Chapter Four LaissezFaire for Americans

Chapter Five Ethics Better than the Morals of Hermits

Chapter Six Religious Socialism: The Communal Moravians

Chapter Seven Abolition: Human Dignity as a Boundary to Markets

Chapter Eight Social Darwinists of Different Species

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Chapter Nine New Influences in Economics

Chapter Ten The Social Gospel and Catholic Thought Around 1900

Chapter Eleven The 1920s and 1930s: Depressed Old Values

Chapter Twelve Too Agnostic, Too Certain: Welfare Economics, Chicago Economics

Chapter Thirteen Moralists of TwentiethCentury Capitalism

Chapter Fourteen Unconventional Alternatives to the Conventional Wisdom

Chapter Fifteen An Ecumenical Consensus on Economic Ethics

Chapter Sixteen Summary, Assessments, and a Projection

Notes

Works Cited

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My thanks are due to the Archives of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, for permission to cite their unpublished document,Broth-erly Agreement and Contract of the Evangelische Brüder-Gemeine at Salem in North Carolina, 1773. In addition, I thank Wake Forest University for providing two research leaves—one that launched this project several years ago and another that helped to conclude it. I also appreciate the fact that the university and my department have allowed me the freedom to design and teach courses on eco-nomics and ethics. Exploring alternative economic moralities with students has helped to clarify my ideas and to find ways to present them succinctly.

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