Conservative Capitalism
Subtitle: The Social Economy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 14, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780312223151
Subjects: Capitalist or free market economies; Capitalism; Conservatism; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Economics - General; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business & Economics-Free Enterprise; Social Science / General; General; Marketing - General; Free Enterprise; Moral and ethical aspects; Social interaction
Description: "Conservative Capitalism explores the nature of the mixed ethos which makes the embodied past a recognisable part of the ever-acquisitive future in history's most dynamic and productive economic system. The book concludes that inherited conventions and the lies of network may indeed be useful inputs in the production-function that churns out the wealth of nations.

This study of the essential relationship between markets and morals examines the work of thinkers including Smith, Burke, Marx, Durkheim, Shackle, Hayek, Polanyi and Fukuyama to put free enterprise in its social context. It illuminates the central questions of our age and will prove stimulating to economists, political theorists, sociologists and all readers interested in the history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.