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Economic Thought and Political Theory

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. David Reisman

    1. University of Surrey, Surrey, UK

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 37)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Communism, Sparta, and Plato

    • Samuel Bostaph
    Pages 1-36

  3. Sir James Steuart on the Managed Market

    • Anastassios Karayiannis
    Pages 37-61

  4. Economic Theory and Policy: An Introduction to John Stuart Mill’s Political Economy

    • Samuel Hollander
    Pages 63-101

  5. Church, State, and Market: Accent on the Social

    • Thomas Nitsch
    Pages 103-127

  6. State and Market When Command Goes Capitalist

    • A. Allan Schmid
    Pages 129-145

  7. Schumpeter and Capitalism in an Era of Transition

    • David Simpson
    Pages 147-170

  8. Cultural Evolution, Collective Learning, and Constitutional Design

    • Viktor Vanberg
    Pages 171-204

  9. Health and Choice: The Contribution of James Buchanan

    • David Reisman
    Pages 205-227

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 229-239
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About this book

People live by ideas which help them to make sense of their experiences. Yet different people live by different ideas. Without an attempt to communicate and comprehend, they would at best be unable to share, at worst be obliged to fight. This book is concerned with communicating and comprehending. It takes the view that ideas matter and that a dialogue with alternative worldviews is a civilised exercise in tolerance.
Economic Thought and Political Theory, concentrates on the ideas of Plato, Steuart, Mill, Schumpeter, Hayek, Buchanan, the Catholic social economists and the property-rights tradition. The focus is dual: the market and the State. As interdisciplinary as the modern mixed economy, as contemporary as the search for middle way, Economic Thought and Political Theory will be of interest to all thinkers determined to find a good balance between individuals' autonomy and governmental leadership.

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` ... the book is highly recommended to readers interested in an open discussion of ideas from very heterogeneous approaches to a common theme, past and present - the problem of choice between state and the market.'
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 154:2 (1998)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Surrey, Surrey, UK

    David Reisman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Economic Thought and Political Theory

  • Editors: David Reisman

  • Series Title: Recent Economic Thought

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1380-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9433-4Published: 31 August 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4604-6Published: 10 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1380-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-199X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 239

  • Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Political Science

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