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

Foley, Duncan K., author.
2009
HB72 -- F639 2006eb
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Title
Adam's Fallacy : A Guide to Economic Theology / Duncan K. Foley.
Author
Foley, Duncan K., author.
ISBN
9780674027077
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674027077
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (288 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674027077 doi
Call Number
HB72 -- F639 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.153
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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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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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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