The Invisible Hand and the Common Good /

The basic moral significance of neo-classical economics and the competitive market system it represents is founded on the classical liberal tradition in which the "simple system of natural liberty" is claimed to give expression to the harmony of each with all. Though such a common good wou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hodgson, Bernard
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
Series:Studies in economic ethics and philosophy.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the Problem
  • Constraining the Invisible Hand
  • Moral Rights and Market Society
  • The Tyranny of the Invisible Hand
  • Economic Theory and Normative Realism
  • Free Hands and Moral Communities
  • The Global Reach of the Invisible Hand.