ECONOMICS OF GOOD AND EVIL: THE QUEST FOR ECONOMIC MEANING FROM GILGAMESH TO WALL STREET

Man has always striven to understand the world around him. To this end he was helped by stories that made sense of his reality. From today’s standpoint, such stories often seem quaint —much as ours will appear to the generations that follow. However, the secret power of these stories is profound.

CONTENTS
Foreword by Vaclav Havel
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Story of Economics: From Poetry to Science

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh: On Effectiveness, Immortality,and the Economics of Friendship
2. The Old Testament: Earthliness and Goodness
3. Ancient Greece
4. Christianity: Spirituality in the Material World
5. Descartes the Mechanic
6. Bernard Mandeville’s Beehive of Vice
7. Adam Smith, Blacksmith of Economics
8. Need for Greed: The History of Want
9. Progress, New Adam, and Sabbath Economics
10. The Axis of Good and Evil and the Bibles of Economics
11. The History of the Invisible Hand of the Market and Homo Economicus
12. The History of Animal Spirits: The Dream Never Sleeps
13. Metamathematics
14. Masters of Truth: Science, Myths, and Faith

Conclusion: Where the Wild Things Are
Bibliography
Index

Páginas : 368
Peso : 4mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2011
ISBN : 978-0199767205
Editorial : OUP USA
Autor : Tomas Sedlacek