Title: Beyond self-interest
Description: This volume presents the methodological and theoretical foundations for economic personalism through a detailed investigation of human action from two different, yet complementary perspectives : the personalist perspective of Karol Wojtyla in The Acting Person (1969) and the free-market perspective of Ludwig von Mises in Human Action (1949). By comparing and contrasting the viewpoints of Wojtyla and Mises, the authors develop a comprehensive praxeology (i.e., a theory of human action) capable of analyzing human action from moral and economic perspectives. Beyond Self-Interest illustrates how a unified praxeology could encourage more sustained analysis of the moral dimensions of economic activity while simultaneously softening the utilitarian prejudice of contemporary economic analysis.
Subjects: Economics, Catholic Church, Personalism, Act (Philosophy), Economic theory & philosophy, Political economy, Social & cultural anthropology, Church And Economics, Philosophy, Religion, Christian Theology - General, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Movements - Humanism, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Christianity - General, II,, John Paul,, Religious aspects, John paul ii, pope, 1920-2005, Von mises, ludwig, 1881-1973, Economics, religious aspects
People: John Paul II Pope (1920-2005), Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973)