Reckoning with Markets

This book presents the notion that economic thinking cannot escape value judgments at any level and that this understanding has been the dominant view throughout most of history. It shows how, from ancient times, people who thought about economic matters integrated moral reflection into their thinking.

Preface ; Chapter 1: Setting the Stage ; Chapter 2: Moral Reflection in the Ancient Mediterranean World ; Chapter 3: Virtue and Values in Scholastic Economic Thought ; Chapter 4: Adam Smith and the Prospects for Moral Reflection in Enlightenment Thinking ; Chapter 5: The Secularization of Political Economy ; Chapter 6: Moral Reflection in Heterodox Economics ; Chapter 7: On Methods and Morals ; Chapter 8: Expanding and Reorienting the Scope of Economic Thinking ; Chapter 9 Predicting, Explaining and Understanding: An Interdisciplinary Approach ; Bibliography