Society Economics And Philosophy

Author : Michael Polanyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351489096

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Society, Economics, and Philosophy by Michael Polanyi Pdf

Society, Economics and Philosophy represents the full range of Polanyi's interests outside of his scientific work: economics, politics, society, philosophy of science, religion and positivist obstacles to it, and art. Polanyi's principal ideas are contained in three essays: on the scientific revolution, the creative imagination and the mind-body relation. Precisely because of Polanyi's work in the physical sciences, his writings have a unique dimension not found in other advocates of the market and too infrequently found even in philosophers of science.Polanyi was a powerful critic of totalitarianism and of the deficiencies of the usual defenses of freedom which helped to prepare the way for it. Freedom, he argued, can be based only upon truth and dedication to transcendent ideals, not upon skepticism, utilitarianism and the liberty of doing merely as one pleases. At a time when easy slogans about socialism were dominant in intellectual circles, epitomized by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and when calls for the central planning of scientific research were made by such as J.D. Bernal, Polanyi exposed their errors and showed that science can flourish only in a free society.More radically than even von Mises and Hayek, Polanyi showed that an industrial economy can operate only polycentrically, that central planning is logically impossible, and that what was called by that name in the Soviet Union was in reality no such thing. Likewise, scientific research can proceed, not by a central plan, but only by the spontaneous self-adjustment of separate initiatives to discover a common reality. Against the positivism dominant within philosophy of science, he argued that the notion of reality must be restored and made central. Yet physical sciences, he also argued, are only one branch of science, and the sciences of life and mind are logically richer and more complex and cannot be reduced to the former, nor mind to body or to computers, nor art to its ph

Author : Van Buren Denslow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:$B87625

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Principles of the Economic Philosophy of Society, Government, and Industry by Van Buren Denslow Pdf

Author : Peter J. Boettke, Professor, George Mason University,Jayme Lemke,Virgil Henry Storr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786605658

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Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of F. A. Hayek by Peter J. Boettke, Professor, George Mason University,Jayme Lemke,Virgil Henry Storr Pdf

This volume critically explore and extend Hayek’s Nobel Prize-winning work on knowledge and social interconnectedness.

Author : F. A. Hayek
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226321288

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New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas by F. A. Hayek Pdf

From a Nobel Laureate economist, a collection of essays outlining ideas on political theory, economic freedom and epistemology. Following on F. A. Hayek’s previous work Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (1967), New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas collects some of Hayek’s most notable essays and lectures dealing with problems of philosophy, politics and economics, with many of the essays falling into more than one of these categories. Expanding upon the previous volume the present work also includes a fourth part collecting a series of Hayek’s writings under the heading “History of Ideas.” Of the articles contained in this volume the lectures on “The Errors of Constructivism”and “Competition as a Discovery Procedure” have been published before only in German, while the article on “Liberalism” was written in English to be published in an Italian translation in the Enciclopedia del Novicento by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana at Rome.

Author : Michael Hudson,Kris Feder,G. J. Miller
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780856833847

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A Philosophy for a Fair Society by Michael Hudson,Kris Feder,G. J. Miller Pdf

With the eclipse of the New Right, politicians now admit that society is in crisis. Something must be done, but, explain the authors, governments will fail again unless they shake off the economic orthodoxy that is now one of the problems rather than the means to a solution. This book investigates the roots of the problem, both historically and theoretically. Dr Michael Hudson draws on archaeology and history, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia through Rome to Byzantium, to show how a destructive virus crept into the body politic. This led to a breakdown in man's relation to the environment and divided society into a wealthy ruling oligarchy and an impoverished majority.

Author : Van Buren Denslow
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019606673

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Principles of the Economic Philosophy of Society, Government and Industry by Van Buren Denslow Pdf

Denslow's insightful analysis of economic principles and their role in shaping society, government, and industry is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of economics and politics. His clear writing and well-reasoned arguments make this a seminal work in the field. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Gerald Gaus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190648992

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The Open Society and Its Complexities by Gerald Gaus Pdf

A mere two decades ago it was widely assumed that liberal democracy and the Open Society it created had decisively won their century-long struggle against authoritarianism. Although subsequent events have shocked many, F.A. Hayek would not have been surprised that we are in many ways disoriented by the society we have created. As he understood it, the Open Society was a precarious achievement in many ways at odds with our deepest moral sentiments. His path-breaking analyses argued that the Open Society runs against our evolved attraction to "tribalism" that the Open Society is too complex for moral justification; and that its self-organized complexity defies attempts at democratic governance. In his final, wide-ranging book, Gerald Gaus critically reexamines Hayek's analyses. Drawing on diverse work in social and moral science, Gaus argues that Hayek's program was manifestly prescient and strikingly sophisticated, always identifying real and pressing problems. Yet, Gaus maintains, Hayek underestimated the resources of human morality and the Open Society to cope with the challenges he perceived. Gaus marshals formal models and empirical evidence to show that our Open Society is grounded on moral foundations of human cooperation originating in our distant evolutionary past, but has built upon them a complex and diverse society that requires us to rethink both the nature of moral justification and the meaning of democratic self-governance. In these fearful, angry and inwardly-looking times, when political philosophy has itself become a hostile exchange between ideological camps, The Open Society and Its Complexities shows how moral and ideological diversity, so far from being the enemy of a free and open society, can be its foundation.

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135167318

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Mind, Society, and Human Action by Richard Wagner Pdf

Economics originated as a branch of the humane studies that was concerned with trying to understand how some societies flourish while others stagnate, and also how once-flourishing societies could come to stagnate. Over the major part of the 20th century, however, economists mostly turned away from these humane and societal concerns by importing mechanistic ideas from 19th century physics. This book seeks to show how that original humane and social focus can be renewed. The many particular topics the book examines can be traced to two central ideas. Firstly, that economic theory, like physics, requires two distinct theoretical frameworks. One treats qualities that are invariant across time and place; this is the domain of equilibrium theory. The other treats the internal generation of change in societies through entrepreneurial action that continually transforms the ecology of enterprises that constitutes a society. Secondly, economic theory is treated as a genuine social science and not a science of rationality writ large. The book also explores ways in which life in society is understood differently once economics is treated as a social science. The book is much of the hyper-formality that comprises economic theory these days fails to make reasonable contact with reality. It will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, and researchers in law, public policy, Austrian economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics and political economy.

Author : Carsten Herrmann-Pillath,Ivan Boldyrev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317907541

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Hegel, Institutions and Economics by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath,Ivan Boldyrev Pdf

Hegel’s philosophy has witnessed periods of revival and oblivion, at times considered to be an unrivalled and all-embracing system of thought, but often renounced with no less ardour. This book renews the dialogue with Hegel by looking at his legacy as a source of insight and judgement that helps us rethink contemporary economics. This book focuses on a concept of institution which is equally important for Hegel's political philosophy and for economic theory to date. The key contributions of this Hegelian perspective on economics lead us to the synthesis of traditional approaches and new ideas gained in economic experiments and advanced by neuroeconomists, sociologists and cognitive scientists. The proper account of contemporary 'civil society' involves comprehending it as a historically evolving totality of individual minds, ideas and intersubjective structures that are mutually dependent, tied by recognitive relations, and assert themselves as a whole in the ongoing performative movement of 'objective spitit'. The ethics of recognition is paired with the ethics of associations that supports moral principles and gives them true, concrete universality. This unusual constellation of seemingly remote fields suggests that Hegel, read in a pragmatist mode, anticipated the new theories and philosophies of extended mind, social cognition and performativity. By providing a new conceptual apparatus and reformulating the theory of institutions in the light of this new synthesis, this book claims to give new meaning both to Hegel as interpreted from today, and to the social sciences. Seen from this perspective, such phenomena as cooperation in games, personal identity or justice in the version of Amartya Sen's 'realization-focused comparisons' are reinscribed into the logic of institutional theory. This 'Hegel' clearly goes beyond the limits of philosophical discussion and becomes a decisive reference for economists, sociologists, political scientists and other scholars who study the foundations and consequences of human sociality and try to explore and design the institutions necessary for a worthy common life.

Author : Michael Hudson,George James Miller,Kris Feder
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 085683159X

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A Philosophy for a Fair Society by Michael Hudson,George James Miller,Kris Feder Pdf

With the eclipse of the New Right, politicians now admit that society is in crisis. Something must be done, but, explain the authors, governments will fail again unless they shake off the economic orthodoxy which is now one of the problems rather than the means to a solution.

Author : Edward Wayne Younkins
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739130537

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Champions of a Free Society by Edward Wayne Younkins Pdf

This book is constructed around great thinkers of the past and present who have been influential in developing the philosophy of freedom. Its main purpose is to provide a survey and overview of the ideas of leading individual philosophers and economists of capitalism who have contributed to developing what might be called the classical liberal or libertarian worldview. Champions of a Free Society endeavors to provide a guide to political and economic thinking about the desirability and construction of a free society that is intelligible to the educated layperson. Edward Younkins provides an historical perspective of the pursuit of political and economic truth. The goal of this book is to present the development of ideas in language that permits generally educated readers to understand and appreciate their significance. The book's chronological approach considers the thinkers and their ideas as they have developed over the course of time. There is much unfulfilled illuminative potential to be found in the ideas of the past and Younkins successfully integrates the ideas of past and current thinkers into a logical contemporary worldview.

Author : VAN BUREN. DENSLOW
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033927635

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PRINCIPLES OF THE ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY. by VAN BUREN. DENSLOW Pdf

Author : Christi Favor,Julian Lamont
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804762540

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Essays on Philosophy, Politics & Economics by Christi Favor,Julian Lamont Pdf

Essays on Philosophy, Politics, & Economics offers a critical examination of economic, philosophical, and political notions, with an eye towards working across all three, so that students and scholars from can expand their perspectives as they approach the necessarily complex research questions of today and tomorrow.

Author : Dogan Göçmen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780857710024

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The Adam Smith Problem by Dogan Göçmen Pdf

This is the first scholarly work to deal solely with the Adam Smith problem, namely the apparent contradiction between Adam Smith's most famous works, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations". Since the 1840s scholars have puzzled over and attempted to explain the fact that these works offer two fundamentally different and contradictory concepts of human nature. In this radical new approach Do an Gocmen argues that there are, indeed, two different concepts of human nature; in "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", Smith advocates a broad synchronization of human intention and behaviour under a beneficent providence in a system of mutual sympathy, whereas "Wealth of Nations" is a critical account of the human situation of the individual and is an egoistic description of human beings in commercial society. Gocmen argues that Smith does indeed put forward two different and varied ideas, arguing that the ethical position articulated in "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" can be, and was intended by Smith to be, applied as a basis for criticising the commercial society analysed in the "Wealth of Nations". Gocmen argues that this ethical position points to the character of its ideal future replacement, that of Adam Smith's Utopia. Gocmen therefore dismisses as short-sighted and oversimple the common assumption that Adam Smith's Utopia consists merely of 'the invisible hand', the idea that markets would regulate everything if left to their own dynamics. This book challenges the traditional approach to Adam Smith and is the first contribution to the solution of a long-standing debate, making it essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the moral philosophy, political economy and utopian thought of Adam Smith.

Author : Cristina Bicchieri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139447149

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The Grammar of Society by Cristina Bicchieri Pdf

In The Grammar of Society, first published in 2006, Cristina Bicchieri examines social norms, such as fairness, cooperation, and reciprocity, in an effort to understand their nature and dynamics, the expectations that they generate, and how they evolve and change. Drawing on several intellectual traditions and methods, including those of social psychology, experimental economics and evolutionary game theory, Bicchieri provides an integrated account of how social norms emerge, why and when we follow them, and the situations where we are most likely to focus on relevant norms. Examining the existence and survival of inefficient norms, she demonstrates how norms evolve in ways that depend upon the psychological dispositions of the individual and how such dispositions may impair social efficiency. By contrast, she also shows how certain psychological propensities may naturally lead individuals to evolve fairness norms that closely resemble those we follow in most modern societies.