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Households : On the Moral Architecture of the Economy / William James Booth.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501722288
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.2/2 23
LOC classification:
  • HB72 .B66 1993eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE THE OIKOS: BEAUTY DOMINATION SCARCITY -- 1. Odysseus' Household -- 2. The Political Economy of the Ancient Household -- PART TWO THE MORAL ECONOMY OF THE LIBERAL HOUSEHOLD -- 3. Despotic and Conjugal Households -- 4. Lions and Pole-Cats: Domination as the Summum Malum -- 5. The New Body Economic: The Contract Community and Its Economy -- 6. Public Homes, Private Homes: Society and Economy in Classical Liberalism -- PART THREE MARX AND THE NEW HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY -- 7. The Dissolution of the Old World -- 8. Markets -- 9. The Household Economy Restored -- 10. Marx, Markets, and Household Economies -- CONCLUSION "THIS HOUSEHOLD IS WHAT IS COMMON TO US" -- INDEX
Summary: What human purpose does an economy serve? In this pathbreaking book, William James Booth examines what he calls the moral architecture of the economy—its significance in our ethical world and the influence of social values on its institutions. Turning to the most fundamental economic unit, Booth explores three basic conceptions of the household—the Aristotelian, the classic liberal, and the Marxist.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE THE OIKOS: BEAUTY DOMINATION SCARCITY -- 1. Odysseus' Household -- 2. The Political Economy of the Ancient Household -- PART TWO THE MORAL ECONOMY OF THE LIBERAL HOUSEHOLD -- 3. Despotic and Conjugal Households -- 4. Lions and Pole-Cats: Domination as the Summum Malum -- 5. The New Body Economic: The Contract Community and Its Economy -- 6. Public Homes, Private Homes: Society and Economy in Classical Liberalism -- PART THREE MARX AND THE NEW HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY -- 7. The Dissolution of the Old World -- 8. Markets -- 9. The Household Economy Restored -- 10. Marx, Markets, and Household Economies -- CONCLUSION "THIS HOUSEHOLD IS WHAT IS COMMON TO US" -- INDEX

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What human purpose does an economy serve? In this pathbreaking book, William James Booth examines what he calls the moral architecture of the economy—its significance in our ethical world and the influence of social values on its institutions. Turning to the most fundamental economic unit, Booth explores three basic conceptions of the household—the Aristotelian, the classic liberal, and the Marxist.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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