TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sedláček,Tomáš
TI  - Economics of good and evil: the quest for economic meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
SN  - 9780199830619
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cary
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - gnd
KW  - Wirtschaft
KW  - Zivilisation
KW  - Wirtschaftsphilosophie
KW  - Wirtschaftsethik
KW  - Literature and morals
KW  - Civilization -- History
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Economics -- Philosophy
KW  - Fernzugriff
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Story of Economics: From Poetry to Science -- PART I: ANCIENT ECONOMICS AND BEYOND -- 1 The Epic of Gilgamesh: On Effectiveness, Immortality, and the Economics of Friendship -- 2 The Old Testament: Earthliness and Goodness -- 3 Ancient Greece -- 4 Christianity: Spirituality in the Material World -- 5 Descartes the Mechanic -- 6 Bernard Mandeville's Beehive of Vice -- 7 Adam Smith, Blacksmith of Economics -- PART II: BLASPHEMOUS THOUGHTS -- 8 Need for Greed: The History of Want -- 9 Progress, New Adam, and Sabbath Economics -- 10 The Axis of Good and Evil and the Bibles of Economics -- 11 The History of the Invisible Hand of the Market and Homo Economicus -- 12 The History of Animal Spirits: The Dream Never Sleeps -- 13 Metamathematics -- 14 Masters of Truth: Science, Myths, and Faith -- Conclusion: Where the Wild Things Are -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
N2  - In The Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek challenges widely-held beliefs about economics and culture by tracing the study and themes of economics throughout history
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