Personalist Economics

Author : Edward J. O'Boyle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475761672

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Personalist Economics by Edward J. O'Boyle Pdf

Personalist Economics: Moral Convictions, Economic Realities, and Social Action examines the nature of the worker and consumer from a personalist perspective, comparing that body of knowledge to what is received from conventional economics. A running theme throughout this book is that personalist economics is attentive to both aspects of human material need - physical need and the need for work as such - in a way that does not disregard human wants. Accordingly, this book is more concerned about the philosophical base and description of the economy's significant characteristics than social economic policy. Personalist Economics explores four dimensions of particularly acute human physical need: unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and death. In addressing these four aspects of need, the book delves into the second and third domains of social economics: description of the significant characteristics of the economy, and social economic policy. In the same way, Personalist Economics explores two types of economic cooperation - supra-firm alliances and inter-firm partnerships - as means for addressing certain aspects of human material need. This book concludes with a lengthy discussion of the challenges facing personalist economics in the years ahead.

Author : Anthony J. Santelli
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739101870

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The Free Person and the Free Economy by Anthony J. Santelli Pdf

Thisvolume applies the praxeological and theoretical foundations of the personalist tradition to free-market economic theory. This work defends economic liberty in theologically sensitive terms that reference the personalist tradition, without compromising the disciplinary integrity of either economics or social ethics.

Author : Patricia Donohue-White
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739101854

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Human Nature and the Discipline of Economics by Patricia Donohue-White Pdf

Foundations of Economic Personalism is a series of three book-length monographs, each closely examining a significant dimension of the Center for Economic Personalism's unique synthesis of Christian personalism and free-economic market theory. In the aftermath of the momentous geo-political and economic changes of the late 1980s, a small group of Christian social ethicists began to converse with free-market economists over the morality of market activity. This interdisciplinary exchange eventually led to the founding of a new academic subdiscipline under the rubric of economic personalism. These scholars attempt to integrate economic theory, history, and methodology with Christian personalism's stress upon human dignity, humane social structures, and social justice. This second volume in the series surveys the anthropological foundations to the disciplines of economics and moral theology. The first part of the book presents an overview of the German, French, and Polish branches of personalist thought. Particular attention is given to theological anthropology, especially as it is developed by such thinkers as Emmanuel Mounier, Max Scheler, Gabriel Marcel, Karol Wojtyla, and Emil Brunner. Part two surveys models of human nature that have been espoused by various schools of free-market thought-including mainstream neoclassical economics. In conclusion, the authors demonstrate how an expanded understanding of human nature can augment the ability of economic science to model and predict human behavior.

Author : Michael D. Greaney,Dawn K. Brohawn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0944997139

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Economic Personalism by Michael D. Greaney,Dawn K. Brohawn Pdf

A Book That Could Change Your Thinking About Social and Economic Justice Forever For over 200 years people have been systematically stripped of their dignity as human persons, first by capitalism, then by socialism, as capital ownership became concentrated first in a private élite, then in a State bureaucracy. Forgotten was the demand that the dignity of every child, woman, and man be respected by equal access to the opportunity and means to be productive through ownership of both labor and capital. In Economic Personalism: Power, Property and Justice for Every Person, co-authors Michael D. Greaney and Dawn K. Brohawn explain briefly what happened and why. They then present the principles of how essential institutions can be put back on track to serve the needs of every person. Giving the framework for an economic order that is neither individualist (capitalism) nor collectivist (socialism), but personalist, this book brings into the light of day assumptions about nature, society, and the human person, and about Church, State, and Family that have raised barriers against the full participation of every person in the institutions of the common good. The result of years of intensive research and work in applying the principles of the Just Third Way, Economic Personalism has the potential not only to revitalize how individuals view their institutions and their place in society, but lays out principles that could guide and inspire debate on vital issues of the day and shape public discourse and future policy. Although based on Catholic social teaching based on natural law, the book is written from an interfaith perspective and is readily accessible and applicable by people of all faiths and philosophies.

Author : Lawrence Boland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134778096

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Critical Economic Methodology by Lawrence Boland Pdf

Lawrence Boland takes issue with both economic methodologists and practicing economists. He argues that there has been too much 'methodology for methodology's sake' and that mainstream economics might benefit by using methodology to take a critical look at economic theory.

Author : Peter Rona,Laszlo Zsolnai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319532912

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Economics as a Moral Science by Peter Rona,Laszlo Zsolnai Pdf

The book is reclaiming economics as a moral science. It argues that ethics is a relevant and inseparable aspect of all levels of economic activity, from individual and organizational to societal and global. Taking ethical considerations into account is needed in explaining and predicting the behavior of economic agents as well as in evaluating and designing economic policies and mechanisms. The unique feature of the book is that it not only analyzes ethics and economics on an abstract level, but puts behavioral, institutional and systemic issues together for a robust and human view of economic functioning. It sees economic “facts” as interwoven with human intentionality and ethical content, a domain where utility calculations and moral considerations co-determine the behavior of economic agents and the outcomes of their activities. The book employs the personalist approach that sees human persons – endowed with free will and conscience – as the basic agents of economic life and defines human flourishing as the final end of economic activities. The book demonstrates that economics can gain a lot in meaning and also in analytical power by reuniting itself with ethics.

Author : Yanis Varoufakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135141356

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Economic Indeterminacy by Yanis Varoufakis Pdf

This volume is a collection of some of the best and most influential work of Yanis Varoufakis. The chapters all address the issue of economic indeterminacy, and the place of a socialized Homo Economicus within the economy. The book addresses Varoufakis’ key interpretation regarding the way in which neoclassical economics deals with the twin problems of complexity and indeterminacy. He argues that all neoclassical modelling revolves around three meta-axioms: Methodological individualism, Methodological instrumentalism and the Methodological Imposition of Equilibrium. Each chapter is preceded by an introduction, which explains its place within the overarching theme of the book. The volume also includes a lengthy introduction, plus a concluding chapter focusing on the future of economics. It will be a key work for all students and researchers in the field of political economy and economic methodology.

Author : Christopher S. Swader
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135100674

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The Capitalist Personality by Christopher S. Swader Pdf

Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and comparing it to more "developed" societies, this book reveals the mixed effects of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships. While most observers blame the egoism and asocial behavior found in new free-market societies on their communist pasts, this work shows how relationships are also threatened by the profit orientations and personal ambition unleashed by economic development. Successful people in societies as diverse as China, Russia, and Eastern Germany adjust to the market economy at a social cost, relaxing their morals in order to obtain success and succumbing to increased material temptations to exploit relationships for their own financial and professional gain. The capitalist personality is internally troubled as a result of this "sellout," but these qualms subside as it devalues intimate qualitative bonds with others. This book also shows that post-communists are similarly individualized as people living in Western societies. Capitalism may indeed favor values of independence, creativity, and self-expressiveness, but it also rewards self-centeredness, consumerism, and the stripping down of morality. As is the case in the West, capitalist culture fosters an internally conflicted and self-centered personality in post-communist societies.

Author : Peter L. Danner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742513076

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The Economic Person by Peter L. Danner Pdf

This book emphasizes that analysis of broad economic changes treats people abstractly, while a personalist view sees them as human agents who, while needing and generating economic goods, must still be responsive to others and be aware of values and goals beyond temporal well-being. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Margaret Oppenheimer,Nicholas Mercuro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317466420

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Law and Economics by Margaret Oppenheimer,Nicholas Mercuro Pdf

The economic analysis of legal and regulatory issues need not be limited to the neoclassical economic approach. The expert contributors to this work employ a variety of heterodox legal-economic theories to address a broad range of legal issues. They demonstrate how these various approaches can lead to very different conclusions concerning the role of the law and legal intervention in a wide array of contexts. The schools of thought and methodologies represented here include institutional economics, new institutional economics, socio-economics, social economics, behavioral economics, game theory, feminist economics, Rawlsian economics, radical economics, Austrian economics, and personalist economics. The legal and regulatory issues examined include anti-trust and competition, corporate governance, the environment and natural resources, land use and property rights, unions and collective bargaining, welfare benefits, work-time regulation and standards, sexual harassment in the workplace, obligations of employers and employees to each other, crime, torts, and even the structure of government. Each contributor brings a different emphasis and provides thoughtful, sometimes provocative analysis and conclusions. Together, these heterodox insights will provide valuable supplementary reading for courses in law and economics as well as public policy and business courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Author : Ron Paul
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781933550251

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Mises and Austrian Economics by Ron Paul Pdf

Author : A. B. Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317816928

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The Personal Distribution of Incomes (Routledge Revivals) by A. B. Atkinson Pdf

First published in 1976, the essays in this volume are concerned with the distribution of income and wealth. The papers were first presented at the Royal Economic Society’s conference in 1974, which examined the evidence concerning the personal distribution of earnings, compared the distributions apparent in different periods and societies, and studied the association between personal attributes and income. The contributions, from internationally-renowned authors, reflect these areas, and address the questions surrounding inequality, the taxation of wealth and capital transfers that remain relevant in twenty-first century society.

Author : Milton Friedman,Rose Friedman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780547539751

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Free To Choose by Milton Friedman,Rose Friedman Pdf

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful and persuasive discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, from today's brightest economist. In this classic discussion, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our affluence undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington. This important analysis reveals what has gone wrong in America in the past and what is necessary for our economic health to flourish.

Author : Jan Ott
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030566005

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Beyond Economics by Jan Ott Pdf

There is a lot of attention for happiness, but there is also a lot of confusion, about the concept and the nature of happiness. This book wants to reduce this confusion, to make the deliberations and discussions about happiness more productive. A reduction of confusion will also make it easier to assess happiness as a possible standard in our personal life and in politics. Acceptance of happiness as a standard will have positive effects. Acceptance in personal life will make individuals more critical, and less vulnerable for adversity and manipulation. Acceptance in politics will contribute to a better detection and analysis of social-economic problems. Such positive effects are important for well-being. Well-being is usually defined as ‘objective well-being’ by experts, like medical specialists or psychologists. They apply their professional standards like blood pressure or personality characteristics. Happiness, on the other hand, is ‘subjective well-being’ as experienced by the people themselves. This happiness is the appreciation of one’s own life as a whole, and this appreciation is based on standards people have adopted themselves, knowingly or unknowingly. Happiness as subjective well-being, and objective well-being as defined by experts, are complementary. It is important to asses objective and subjective well-being simultaneously, and it is incorrect to ignore one of them.

Author : N. Karagiannis,J. Marangos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137313621

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Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-First Century by N. Karagiannis,J. Marangos Pdf

Having previously defined a good society as a sustainable society with a high level of development, significant provision of meaningful jobs, and low levels of inequality and social ills, Toward a Good Society in the Twenty-first Century provides a wide range of principles and policies that would be necessary if we are to achieve a good society.