@article{1478237, recid = {1478237}, author = {Foley, Duncan K., }, title = {Adam's Fallacy : A Guide to Economic Theology /}, pages = {1 online resource (288 p.)}, abstract = {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.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478237}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674027077}, }