Title The moral economists : R.H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E.P. Thompson, and the critique of capitalism / Tim Rogan

Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- R.H. Tawney -- Karl Polanyi -- Capitalism in Transition? -- E.P. Thompson -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index Summary A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lens What's wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted in utilitarian terms, the critique of capitalism in the twenty-first century is primarily concerned with disparities in income and wealth. It was not always so. The Moral Economists reconstructs another critical tradition, developed across the twentieth century in Britain, in which material deprivation was less important than moral or spiritual desolation. Tim Rogan focuses on three of the twentieth century's most influential critics of capitalism--R.H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, and E.P. Thompson. Making arguments about the relationships between economics and ethics in modernity, their works commanded wide readerships, shaped research agendas, and influenced public opinion. Rejecting the social philosophy of laissez-faire but fearing authoritarianism, these writers sought out forms of social solidarity closer than individualism admitted but freer than collectivism allowed. They discovered such solidarities while teaching economics, history, and literature to workers in the north of England and elsewhere. They wrote histories of capitalism to make these solidarities articulate. They used makeshift languages of "tradition" and "custom" to describe them until Thompson patented the idea of the "moral economy." Analysis Adult education Amartya Sen Antipathy Authoritarianism Calculation Cambridge University Press Capitalism Christian left Christian socialism Collectivism Communism Corporatism Criticism of capitalism Criticism Critique Determination Double Movement E. P. Thompson Economic history Economic problem Economics Economism Economist Eric Hobsbawm Ethics Evan Durbin Form of life (philosophy) Graham Wallas Guild socialism György Lukács Homo economicus Hostility Ideology Individualism Institution Intellectual history Interwar Britain J. B. Priestley John Macmurray John Maynard Keynes Joseph Needham Karl Mannheim Karl Polanyi Kenneth Arrow Laissez-faire Lecture Left-wing politics Leninism Liberalism Literature Marxian economics Marxism Michael Polanyi Modernity Moral economy Morality Natural theology Perry Anderson Philosopher Philosophy Political economy Political party Political philosophy Politician Politics Principle Protestantism R. H. Tawney Rationality Secularization Seminar Skepticism Social Action Social choice theory Social issue Social order Social revolution Social science Social theory Sociology Stalinism Suggestion The Great Transformation (book) The Making of the English Working Class The Wealth of Nations Theory Thomas Hobbes Thomas Robert Malthus Totalitarianism Trade union Unemployment Utilitarianism Value (ethics) Victor Gollancz Vilfredo Pareto Wealth Welfare economics Welfare state Welfare Writing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1880-1962. Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964. Thompson, E. P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-1993. SUBJECT Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964 fast Tawney, R. H. (Richard Henry), 1880-1962 fast Thompson, E. P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-1993 fast Tawney, Richard H. 1880-1962 gnd Thompson, Edward P. 1924-1993 gnd Polanyi, Karl 1886-1964 gnd Subject Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects Socialism. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History. Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects Socialism Kapitalismus Kritik Wirtschaftsethik Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400888023 1400888026

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