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Ver Eecke, Wilfried. Ethical Dimensions of the Economy - Making Use of Hegel and the Concepts of Public and Merit Goods. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
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Wilfried Ver Eecke

Ethical Dimensions of the Economy

Making Use of Hegel and the Concepts of Public and Merit Goods
  • Springer Berlin Heidelberg
  • 2010
  • Taschenbuch
  • 320 Seiten
  • ISBN 9783642095856

Overview This book is a philosophical reflection (using mainly Hegel, in addition to 1 Adam Smith, Kant, Marx and Catholic Social Thought) about the soc- political dimension of economics. In it I both agree and disagree with the slogan that ¿the least government is the best government. ¿ I agree with the slogan, in particular as it applies to the economic domain. Adam Smith taught us that rational and self-interested individuals, left by themselves, create a more efficient and reliable economic system than one in which the government has a heavy role as was the case in his time with the merc- tile system (Smith, 14,

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651). Ludwig von Mises demonstrated the same idea for the communist command economy (Hayek 1935, 87¿130). I d- agree with the above mentioned slogan if it is interpreted as suggesting that we can best forget about the role of the government for a good functioning economy. Instead, I will argue that the government has an important fu- tion in creating the proper regulations and the wise institutional arran- ments which will allow the economy to flourish in a more efficient, fair and humane way. This book is interdisciplinary in nature. It is a philosophical and ethical reflection on economics. Hence, I make use of philosophical ideas, often but not exclusively those of Hegel. I reflect philosophically on economic concepts.

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