The Self-Imposed Poverty of Economics by Tibor R. Machan and David M. Brown Tibor Machan is a professor of philosophy at Chapman University.
Moral values are possible.
Authentic allegiance to such values is possible. Posner s book is essentially a rendering into economic language of the ethical and political issues of human life. He explains that there is really more to ethics and politics, at their best, than merely the working out and following of narrow strategies for realizing what one desires in life. Economists, like other social scientists, are always seeking some comprehensive and unitary explanation of human behavior, one that mimics the natural sciences, especially physics. Usually the favored motive is the desire to prosper, even though the content of prosperity may vary tremendously from person to person, age to age, and region to region around the world.