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1 online resource |
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Preface / Michael R. Strain and Stan A. Veuger -- Aristotle on Economics and the Flourishing Life / Harvey C. Mansfield -- Hobbes, Locke, and the Problems of Political Economy / Peter B. Josephson -- Rousseau on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing / John T. Scott -- Adam Smith and Human Flourishing / Ryan Patrick Hanley -- Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing: Kant on Society, Citizenship, and Redistributive Justice / Susan Meld Shell -- Edmund Burke's Economics of Flourishing / Yuval Levin -- Capitalism as a Road to Serfdom? Tocqueville on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing / Steven Bilakovics -- John Stuart Mill on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing / Richard Boyd -- Economic Liberty as Anti-Flourishing: Marx and Especially His Followers / Deirdre Nansen McCloskey -- About the Authors |
| Summary |
Is economic liberty necessary for individuals to lead truly flourishing lives? Whether your immediate answer is yes or no, this question is deceptively simple. What do we mean by liberty? What constitutes the flourishing life? How are these related? How is economic liberty related to other goods that affect human flourishing? To answer these questions-and more-this volume brings to bear some of history's greatest thinkers, interpreted by some of today's leading scholars of their thought |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 20, 2016) |
| Subject |
Free enterprise.
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Social entrepreneurship.
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Social responsibility of business.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Free enterprise
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Social entrepreneurship
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Social responsibility of business
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Strain, Michael R., editor
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Veuger, Stan A., editor
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| ISBN |
9780844750033 |
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0844750034 |
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