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.)
Other Standard Identifiers 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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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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