Conservative Capitalism: The Social Economy

ISBN-13: 9780312223151 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 277 str.

David A. Reisman

Opis

Smith, Burke, Marx, Durkheim, Polanyi and Hayek--all sought to situate market exchange and property-based acquisitiveness in the broader context of human interaction and social values. This book explores that framework of interdependence and ethics that embeds the capitalist market economy in an ongoing whole of which the calculative present-day is but a part. It argues that the stability of conservatism anchors the dynamism of entrepreneurship in a matrix of patterns and habits without which orderly free enterprise would be at risk of degenerating into the Hobbesian war of each against all.

Recenzje

'A carefully measured account of the key intellectual work, examining the relationship between markets and morals.' - Michael Pollitt, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction Choice Inductive Conservatism Economy and Society Convention Evolution and Economy Individual and Interest The Ethical Constraint Structure as Capital Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

David Reisman is Professor of Economics in the University of Surrey.