Author : James Halteman,Jim Halteman,Edd S. Noell
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199763702
Reckoning with Markets by James Halteman,Jim Halteman,Edd S. Noell Pdf
This book presents the notion that economic thinking cannot escape value judgments at any level and that this understanding has been the dominant view throughout most of history. It shows how, from ancient times, people who thought about economic matters integrated moral reflection into their thinking. Reflecting on the Enlightenment and the birth of economics as a science, Halteman and Noell illustrate the process by which values and beliefs were excluded from economics proper. They also bring the reader up to date, given the changes over the last half-century.