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This book is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the essential relationship between markets and morals. Smith, Burke and Marx, Durkheim, Polyani and Hayek - all sought to situate market exchange and property-based acquisitiveness in the broader context of human interaction and social values. This framework of interdependence and ethics embeds the capitalist market economy in an ongoing whole of which the calculative present-day is but a part. The book argues that the stability of conservatism anchors the dynamism of entrepreneurship in a matrix of patterns and habits without which orderly free enterprise would be at risk of degenerating into the Hobbesian war of each against all.
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'A carefully measured account of the key intellectual work, examining the relationship between markets and morals.' - Michael Pollitt, The Times Higher Education Supplement
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David Reisman is Professor of Economics in the University of Surrey.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conserative Capitalism
Book Subtitle: The Social Economy
Authors: David Reisman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333982785
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22315-1Published: 10 September 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-0-333-98278-5Published: 18 May 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 277
Topics: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods