Are Markets Moral? / / ed. by Steven J. Kautz, Arthur M. Melzer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bibby, Andrew S.,; Das, Gurcharan,; Epstein, Richard A.,; Forman, Fonna,; George, Robert P.,; Kautz, Steven J.,; Lawler, Peter Augustine,; Lukes, Steven,; McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen,; McNamara, Peter,; Melzer, Arthur M.,; Tomasi, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Kautz, Steven J.,; Melzer, Arthur M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Despite the remarkable achievements of free markets—their rapid spread around the world and success at generating economic growth—they tend to elicit anxiety. Creative destruction and destabilizing change provoke feelings of powerlessness in the face of circumstances that portend inevitable catastro...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• 1. The Moral Resistance to Capitalism: A Brief Overview
• PART I. THE GLORIES AND MISERIES OF MARKETIZATION
• 2. Economic Liberties and Human Rights
• 3. Smart Consequentialism: Kantian Moral Theory and the (Qualified) Defense of Capitalism
• 4. “Getting and Spending, We Lay Waste Our Powers”: On the Expanding Reach of the Market
• 5. Five Pillars of Decent and Dynamic Societies
• 6. Higher Education and American Capitalism Today
• PART II. NON-WESTERN CAPITALISM
• 7. Dharma, Markets, and Indian Capitalism
• 8. The Great Enrichment Came and Comes from Ethics and Rhetoric
• 9. Adam Smith and a New Public Imagination
• PART III. REVISITING LOCKE, MONTESQUIEU, AND SMITH
• 10. Capitalism and the Moral Sentiments
• 11. Markets and Morality in the Enlightenment: Neglected Aspects of Montesquieu’s Case for Commerce
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS