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The Economic Person. Acting and Analyzing.
Peter L. Danner
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Description for The Economic Person. Acting and Analyzing.
Hardback. This book emphasizes that analysis of broad economic changes treats people abstractly, while a personalist view sees them as human agents who, while needing and generating economic goods, must still be responsive to others and be aware of values and goals beyond temporal well-being. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Early scholars, perceiving economics as the praxis of persons, emphasized their obligation to share economic goods; to use them prudently and lawfully and to trade or lend them justly. As notional economics grew and became more complex, scholars like Adam Smith perceived economics as a science of human conduct and relations with its own principles of operation. It reflected the secular, amoral, and empirical Zeitgeist of the 19th century, demoting homo economicus into a mere economic agent without moral principles. This book focuses on the human person as a whole self-conscious spirit and a whole material body rather than an ... Read more
Early scholars, perceiving economics as the praxis of persons, emphasized their obligation to share economic goods; to use them prudently and lawfully and to trade or lend them justly. As notional economics grew and became more complex, scholars like Adam Smith perceived economics as a science of human conduct and relations with its own principles of operation. It reflected the secular, amoral, and empirical Zeitgeist of the 19th century, demoting homo economicus into a mere economic agent without moral principles. This book focuses on the human person as a whole self-conscious spirit and a whole material body rather than an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742513068
SKU
V9780742513068
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About Peter L. Danner
Peter L. Danner is professor emeritus at Marquette University and the author of An Ethics for the Affluent.
Reviews for The Economic Person. Acting and Analyzing.
Danner's book is not utopian but neither is dystopian. His theory remains thoroughly economic, not ethical or theological, and thus provides a subtle and valuable reminder of the independent status of 'economic science' in the academy.
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