Physical Description
xvii, 487 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents
Historical backdrop : rights, righteousness, and virtue
Voltaire : "a merchant of a noble kind"
Adam Smith : moral philosophy and political economy
Justus Moser : the market as destroyer of culture
Edmund Burke : commerce, conservatism, and the intellectuals
Hegel : a life worth choosing
Karl Marx : from Jewish usury to universal vampirism
Matthew Arnold : weaning the Philistines from the drug of business
Weber, Simmel, and Sombart : community, individuality, and rationality
Lukacs and Freyer : from the quest for community to the temptations of totality
Schumpeter : innovation and resentment
From Keynes to Marcuse : affluence and its discontents
Friedrich Hayek : untimely liberal.
ISBN
0385721668
9780385721660 (pbk.)
Notes
Originally published in hardcopy: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2002.
Item incorrectly displays Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data for the Knopf 2002 publication on the t.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-469) and index.
Historical backdrop : rights, righteousness, and virtue -- Voltaire : "a merchant of a noble kind" -- Adam Smith : moral philosophy and political economy -- Justus Moser : the market as destroyer of culture -- Edmund Burke : commerce, conservatism, and the intellectuals -- Hegel : a life worth choosing -- Karl Marx : from Jewish usury to universal vampirism -- Matthew Arnold : weaning the Philistines from the drug of business -- Weber, Simmel, and Sombart : community, individuality, and rationality -- Lukacs and Freyer : from the quest for community to the temptations of totality -- Schumpeter : innovation and resentment -- From Keynes to Marcuse : affluence and its discontents -- Friedrich Hayek : untimely liberal.
