Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy

ISBN-13: 9780367686956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 198 str.

Gábor Bíró

Opis

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Sympathies for Common Ends: The Principles of Organization in Hume’s Psychology and Political EconomyTamás Demeter Chapter 3: Adam Smith on Organic Change in Moral BeliefsCraig Smith Chapter 4: Malthusianism In and Out of Darwinism. Naturalising Society and Moralising Nature?Antonello La Vergata Chapter 5: J.S. Mill’s Understanding of the “Organic” Nature of SocialismHelen McCabe Chapter 6: The Concept of Organic Growth in Marshall’s WorkNeil B. Niman Chapter 7: The Role of Keynes’s Idea of “Organic Unity” in his “General Theory” of CapitalismTed Winslow Chapter 8: Unintended Order and Self-Organization in the Evolutionary Social Theory of Friedrich HayekHilton L. Root Chapter 9: The Politics of Naturalizing the Economy: Organic Aspects in the Economic Thought of Karl and Michael PolanyiGábor Bíró

O autorze

Gábor Bíró is an Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Philosophy and History of Science at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and a Research Fellow of the MTA Lendület Morals and Science Research Group at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary. He was awarded the History of Economics Society 'Craufurd Goodwin Best Article Prize' in 2021 for his paper on Michael Polanyi and the first economics film, published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.