Accepting the Invisible Hand [electronic resource] : Market-Based Approaches to Social-Economic Problems /
White, M.editor.
This collection of essays by prominent economists and philosophers showcases the important contributions that markets can make to important topics within social economics, including practical issues such as poverty and disaster relief, as well as more general concerns regarding ethics and well-being.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Markets and Dignity: The Essential Link (With an Application to Health Care); 2 Markets, Discovery, and Social Problems; 3 Economic Freedom and Global Poverty; 4 Don't Let the Best Be the Enemy of the Good: A Stoic Defense of the Market; 5 Ethics in the Mayan Market place; 6 Philanthropy and the Invisible Hand: Hayek, Boulding, and Beyond; 7 Life in the Market Is Good for You; 8 Doing the Right Things: The Private Sector Response to Hurricane Katrina as a Case Study in the Bourgeois Virtues; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection of essays by prominent economists and philosophers showcases the important contributions that markets can make to important topics within social economics, including practical issues such as poverty and disaster relief, as well as more general concerns regarding ethics and well-being.
Economic theory.
Macroeconomics.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.