Research Catalog

Title

Conservative capitalism : the social economy / David Reisman.

Author

Reisman, David A.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press ; London : Macmillan, 1999.

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Description

vi, 277 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "Conservative Capitalism explores the nature of the mixed ethos which makes the embodied past a recognisable part of the ever-acquisitive future in history's most dynamic and productive economic system. The book concludes that inherited conventions and the lies of network may indeed be useful inputs in the production-function that churns out the wealth of nations.
• This study of the essential relationship between markets and morals examines the work of thinkers including Smith, Burke, Marx, Durkheim, Shackle, Hayek, Polanyi and Fukuyama to put free enterprise in its social context. It illuminates the central questions of our age and will prove stimulating to economists, political theorists, sociologists and all readers interested in the history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Social interaction
• Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects
• Conservatism
• Free enterprise

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Choice -- 3. Inductive Conservatism -- 4. Economy and Society -- 5. Convention -- 6. Evolution and Economy -- 7. Individual and Interest -- 8. The Ethical Constraint -- 9. Structure as Capital -- 10. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0312223153 (cloth)
• 0333772822

LCCN

99011254

OCLC

• 40668147
• ocm40668147

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries