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Ethical Dimensions of the Economy
Wilfried Ver Eecke
其他書名
Making Use of Hegel and the Concepts of Public and Merit Goods
出版Springer Science & Business Media, 2008-03-19
主題Business & Economics / GeneralPhilosophy / GeneralPhilosophy / Ethics & Moral PhilosophyPhilosophy / PoliticalBusiness & Economics / Economics / TheoryBusiness & Economics / Economic HistoryBusiness & Economics / Economics / General
ISBN35407711159783540771111
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mHLtRkmFV5AC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Overview This book is a philosophical reflection (using mainly Hegel, in addition to 1 Adam Smith, Kant, Marx and Catholic Social Thought) about the soc- political dimension of economics. In it I both agree and disagree with the slogan that “the least government is the best government. ” I agree with the slogan, in particular as it applies to the economic domain. Adam Smith taught us that rational and self-interested individuals, left by themselves, create a more efficient and reliable economic system than one in which the government has a heavy role as was the case in his time with the merc- tile system (Smith, 14, 651). Ludwig von Mises demonstrated the same idea for the communist command economy (Hayek 1935, 87–130). I d- agree with the above mentioned slogan if it is interpreted as suggesting that we can best forget about the role of the government for a good functioning economy. Instead, I will argue that the government has an important fu- tion in creating the proper regulations and the wise institutional arran- ments which will allow the economy to flourish in a more efficient, fair and humane way. This book is interdisciplinary in nature. It is a philosophical and ethical reflection on economics. Hence, I make use of philosophical ideas, often but not exclusively those of Hegel. I reflect philosophically on economic concepts.