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Rediscovering Political Economy
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2011
Summary
The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy—an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories mutually inform each other. Only through a restoration of political economy can we reconnect economics to the human good. Economics as a discipline deals with the production and distribution of goods and services. Yet the study of economics can-indeed must—be employed in our striving for the best possible political order and way of life. Economic thinkers and political actors need once again to consider how the Constitution and basic principles of our government might give direction and discipline to our thinking about economic theories, and to the economic policies we choose to implement. The contributors are experts in economic history, and the history of economic ideas. They address basic themes of political economy, theoretical and practical: from the relationship between natural law and economics, to how our Founding Fathers approached economics, to questions of banking and monetary policy. Their insights will serve as trusty guides to future generations, as well as to our own.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6659-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6661-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
260
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Preface: The Forgotten Field of Political Economy No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1. The Moral Basis for Economic Liberty No access
Chapter 2. Restoring Sound Economic Thinking: What Natural Law Taught Us No access
Chapter 3. The Idea of Commerce in Enlightenment Political Thought No access
Chapter 4. Understanding Friedrich Engels (and Marx) and Adam Smith on Economic Organization and the Price Mechanism No access
Chapter 5. Ten (Mostly) Austrian Insights for These Trying Times No access
Chapter 6. Promoting the General Welfare: Political Economy for a Free Republic No access
Chapter 7. The Economic Theory of the American Founding No access
Chapter 8. Hamilton and Jefferson: Two Visions of Democratic Capitalism No access
Chapter 9. The Right Kind of Regulation: What the Founders Thought about Regulation No access
Chapter 10. American Banking from Birth to Bust, and All Points in Between No access
