Economics of good and evil : the quest for economic meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street / Tomas Sedlacek.
2011
174 S449e 2011
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Title
Economics of good and evil : the quest for economic meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street / Tomas Sedlacek.
Author
Uniform Title
Ekonomie dobra a zla. English
ISBN
9780199767205 (alk. paper)
0199767203 (alk. paper)
0199767203 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xii, 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
174 S449e 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)651487395
(OCoLC)651487395
(OCoLC)651487395
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-340) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
I: Ancient economics and beyond
The epic of Gilgamesh: on effectiveness, immortality, and the economics of friendship
The Old Testament: earthliness and goodness
Ancient Greece
Christianity: spirituality in the material world
Descartes the mechanic
Bernard Mandeville's beehive of vice
Adam Smith, blacksmith of economics
III: Blasphemous thoughts
Need for greed: the history of want
Progress, new Adam, and Sabbath economics
The axis of good and evil and the Bibles of economics
The history of the invisible hand of the market and homo economicus
The history of animal spirits: the dream never sleeps
Metamathematics
Masters of truth: science, myths, and faith
Conclusion: where the wild things are.
The epic of Gilgamesh: on effectiveness, immortality, and the economics of friendship
The Old Testament: earthliness and goodness
Ancient Greece
Christianity: spirituality in the material world
Descartes the mechanic
Bernard Mandeville's beehive of vice
Adam Smith, blacksmith of economics
III: Blasphemous thoughts
Need for greed: the history of want
Progress, new Adam, and Sabbath economics
The axis of good and evil and the Bibles of economics
The history of the invisible hand of the market and homo economicus
The history of animal spirits: the dream never sleeps
Metamathematics
Masters of truth: science, myths, and faith
Conclusion: where the wild things are.
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