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Author Friedman, Daniel, 1947-

Title Morals and markets : an evolutionary account of the modern world / Daniel Friedman.

Imprint New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  174.4 F914m 2008    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 261 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-244) and index.
Contents The Savanna Code: What Good Are Morals? -- Bazaar and Empire: How Did We Become Civilized and Why Did We Start Shopping? -- The Great Transformation: Why Is the Modern World So Rich? -- Utopias of Cooperation: Romantics, Communists, and Other Anti-moderns -- Russia's Transition to Kleptocracy: When Markets Need Morals -- Japan's Bubbles and Zombies: When Morals Choke Markets -- Towers of Trust: The Rise (and Occasional Crash) of Financial Markets -- From Hudson's Bay to eBay: Why Do Some People Like Going to Work? -- Markets for Crime and Markets for Punishment -- Mullahs' Revenge: Gangs, Cults, and Anti-terrorists -- Cooling the Earth: Environmental Markets and Morals -- Future Morals and Markets:Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Subject Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Free enterprise -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Business ethics.
ISBN 0230600972
9780230600973

 
    
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