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Adam's Fallacy : A Guide to Economic Theology / Duncan K. Foley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674027299
  • 9780674027077
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.153
LOC classification:
  • HB72 -- F639 2006eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Adam's Vision -- 2. Gloomy Science -- 3 . The Severest Critic -- 4.On the Margins -- 6. Grand Illusions -- Reading Further -- Appendix -- Index
Summary: This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674027077

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Adam's Vision -- 2. Gloomy Science -- 3 . The Severest Critic -- 4.On the Margins -- 6. Grand Illusions -- Reading Further -- Appendix -- Index

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This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)