Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xvii, 487 p. ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-469) and index. |
Contents |
Historical backdrop : rights, righteousness, and virtue -- Voltaire : "a merchant of a noble kind" -- Adam Smith : moral philosophy and political economy -- Justus Moser : the market as destroyer of culture -- Edmund Burke : commerce, conservatism, and the intellectuals -- Hegel : a life worth choosing -- Karl Marx : from Jewish usury to universal vampirism -- Matthew Arnold : weaning the Philistines from the drug of business -- Weber, Simmel, and Sombart : community, individuality, and rationality -- Lukacs and Freyer : from the quest for community to the temptations of totality -- Schumpeter : innovation and resentment -- From Keynes to Marcuse : affluence and its discontents -- Friedrich Hayek : untimely liberal. |
Subject |
Capitalism -- History.
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Capitalism -- Europe -- History.
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Economics -- History.
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Economics -- Europe -- History.
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Europe.
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ISBN |
0375414118 |
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