Providing an account of the development of economic thought, this book explores the extent to which economic ideas are rooted in moral values. Adopting an appro

A key issue in economic discourse today is the relation (or lack of it) between economic behaviour and morality. Few (presumably) would want to deny that human

Beginning with a re-evaluation of mercantilism, this volume continues with papers on stoicism in the work of Adam Smith, Smith's use of the word natural, a game

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- politi

Two of the most important economics treatise are Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations and Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. In