Introduction.- Part I Normative Reflections on the Economy.- Section I Multiple Discourses on the Economy.- The Interconnection of Moral and Economic Theory.- Economics and Politics in the Architectonic of Hegel's Thought.- Section II Hegel and Political Economy.- The Ethical Function of the Economy.- The Economic Order: A Human, No a Natural Institution.- Section III Tightening the Argument.- A Philosophical Dialogue with Economists.- The Concept of "Merit Good" and the History of Economic Thought.- Objecting t a Libertarian Attack on Governmental Functions in the Economy: The Concept of "Public Good".- Part II Applications.- Section I Reflections on the Political Economy in the US.- Structural Deficiencies in the American System.- Unjust Redistribution in the American System.- Section II Challenges in Transforming Command Economies.- The Role of Religion and Civil Society in a Transformed Command Economy.- Section III Philosophy of Economics and Catholic Social Though.- Overlapping Ideas: Catholic Social Thought and Recent Nobel Laureates in Economics.- Conclusion.- References.- Indices.
EAN/ISBN : 9783540771111
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Ver Eecke, Wilfried