ECONOMICS OF GOOD & EVIL C

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A historical tour of economic ideas in world literature to examine the way societies have reconciled their moral values with economic forces.

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Produktbeschreibung

A historical tour of economic ideas in world literature to examine the way societies have reconciled their moral values with economic forces.

Produktdetails

Produktdetails
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
Seitenzahl: 374
Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2009
Englisch
Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
Gewicht: 694g
ISBN-13: 9780199767205
ISBN-10: 0199767203
Artikelnr.: 32728089

Herstellerkennzeichnung
Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
gpsr@libri.de

Produktdetails

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
Seitenzahl: 374
Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2009
Englisch
Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
Gewicht: 694g
ISBN-13: 9780199767205
ISBN-10: 0199767203
Artikelnr.: 32728089

Herstellerkennzeichnung
Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
gpsr@libri.de

Autorenporträt

Tomas Sedlacek lectures at Charles University and is a member of the National Economic Council in Prague, where the original version of this book was a national bestseller and was also adapted as a popular theater-piece. He worked as an advisor of Vaclav Havel, the first Czech president after the fall of communism, and is a regular columnist and popular radio and TV commentator.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: The Epic of Gilgamesh: On effectiveness, Immortality and the
Economics of Friendship
* 2: The Old Testament: Earthliness and Goodness
* 3: Ancient Greece
* 4: Christianity: Spirituality in the Material World
* 5: Descartes the Mechanic
* 6: Bernard Mandeville's Beehive of Vice
* 7: Adam Smith, Blacksmith of Economics
* 8: Need for Greed - The History of Want
* 9: Progress and Sabbath Economics
* 10: The Axis of Good and Evil and the Bibles of Economics
* 11: The History of the Invisible Hand of the Market and Homo
Oeconomicus
* 12: The History of Animal Spirits - the Dream Never Sleeps
* 13: MetaMathematics
* 14: Masters of Truth: Science, Myths and Faith

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