Beschreibung:
Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought.
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Sympathies for Common Ends: The Principles of Organization in Hume's Psychology and Political Economy Chapter 3: Adam Smith on Organic Change in Moral Beliefs Chapter 4: Malthusianism In and Out of Darwinism. Naturalising Society and Moralising Nature? Chapter 5: J.S. Mill's Understanding of the "Organic" Nature of Socialism Chapter 6: The Concept of Organic Growth in Marshall's Work Chapter 7: The Role of Keynes's Idea of "Organic Unity" in his "General Theory" of Capitalism Chapter 8: Unintended Order and Self-Organization in the Evolutionary Social Theory of Friedrich Hayek Chapter 9: The Politics of Naturalizing the Economy: Organic Aspects in the Economic Thought of Karl and Michael Polanyi