Conservative Capitalism: The Social Economy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312223151)

This book is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the essential relationship between markets and morals. Smith, Burke and Marx, Durkheim, Polyani and Hayek - all sought to situate market exchange and property-based acquisitiveness in the broader context of human interaction and social values. This framework of interdependence and ethics embeds the capitalist market economy in an ongoing whole of which the calculative present-day is but a part. The book argues that the stability of conservatism anchors the dynamism of entrepreneurship in a matrix of patterns and habits without which orderly free enterprise would be at risk of degenerating into the Hobbesian war of each against all.

Author: D. Reisman
ISBN-10: 0312223153
ISBN-13: 9780312223151
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/10/1999
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.72w x 0.99d