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Subject(s)

• Economics—History [Browse]
• Economic policy [Browse]

Editor

• Biró, Gábor [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of economics [More in this series]

Summary note

"Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought. The chapters show that organic aspects (that is, aspects related to sensitive, cognitive or social human qualities) were present in the economic ideas of a wide range of important thinkers including Hume, Smith, Malthus, Mill, Marshall, Keynes, Hayek and the Polanyi brothers. Moreover, the contributors to this thought-provoking volume reveal in turn that these aspects were crucial to how these key figures thought about the economy. This stimulating collection of essays will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of the history of economic thought, economic philosophy, heterodox economics, moral philosophy and intellectual history. Gábor Bíró is an Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Philosophy and History of Science at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and a Research Fellow of the MTA Lendület Morals and Science Research Group, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Sympathies for common ends: the principles of organization in Hume's psychology and political economy / Tamás Demeter
• Adam Smith on organic change in moral beliefs / Craig Smith
• Malthusianism in and out of Darwinism. Naturalising society and moralising nature? / Antonello La Vergata
• J.S. Mill's understanding of the "organic" nature of socialism / Helen McCabe
• The concept of organic growth in Marshall's work / Neil B. Niman
• The role of Keynes's idea of "organic unity" in his "general theory" of capitalism / Ted Winslow
• Unintended order and self-organization in the evolutionary social theory of Friedrich Hayek / Hilton L. Root
• The politics of naturalizing the economy: organic aspects in the economic thought of Karl and Michael Polanyi / Gábor Bíró.

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ISBN

• 9780367686956 (hardcover)
• 0367686953 (hardcover)
• 9780367686970 (paperback)
• 036768697X (paperback)

LCCN

2021025115

OCLC

1256589369

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