Accepting the invisible hand
Subtitle: market-based approaches to social-economic problems
By: edited by Mark D. White
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Perspectives from social economics; Perspectives from social economics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780230102491
Subjects: Free enterprise; Moral and ethical aspects; Social policy; Social problems
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Markets and dignity : the essential link : (with an application to health care) / Mark D. White; title: Markets, discovery, and social problems / John Meadowcroft; title: Economic freedom and global poverty / James D. Gwartney and Joseph S. Connors; title: Don't let the best be the enemy of the good : a stoic defense of the market / Jennifer A. Baker; title: Ethics in the Mayan marketplace / Benjamin Blevins, Guadalupe Ramirez, and Jonathan B. Wight; title: Philantropy and the invisible hand : Hayek, Boulding, and beyond / Robert F. Garnett, Jr.; title: Life in the market is good for you / Deirdre Nansen McCloskey; title: Doing the right things : the private sector response to Hurricane Katrina as a case study in the bourgeois virtues / Steven Horwitz.