{"product_id":"moral-discourse-in-the-history-of-economic-thought-9781032106113","title":"Moral Discourse in the History of Economic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding an account of the development of economic thought, this book explores the extent to which economic ideas are rooted in moral values. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdopting an approach rooted in pragmatism', the work explores key questions which have been considered by economists since the classical political economists. These include: what degree of priority ought to be granted to property rights among all individual liberties; whether uncertainties in economic life justify investing political authorities with the power to stabilize business cycles; whether it is better to trust entrepreneurial initiatives to resolve societal dilemmas or to centralize policy-making in the hands of a benevolent government. The chapters argue that economic thought has evolved from an emphasis on sympathy (as defined by Adam Smith) and that there has more recently been a rediscovery of the significance of sympathy reinvented as fair reciprocity in the wake of the emergence of behavioural economics and its co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 1 Introduction CHAPTER 2 Classical Political Economy: The Age of “Sympathy”? CHAPTER 3 Neoclassical Economics: Economics as Pure Science? CHAPTER 4 The Political Economy of “Market Failures” CHAPTER 5 The Birth of Macroeconomics CHAPTER 6 The Political Economy of Government Failures CHAPTER 7 Neoliberalism and Its Discontents CHAPTER 8 The Way Forward\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018839490903,"sku":"9781032106113","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032106113.jpg?v=1750778344","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/moral-discourse-in-the-history-of-economic-thought-9781032106113","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}