Philosophy of the Economy: An Aristotelian Approach

by Ricardo F. Crespo

Overview

This book develops a philosophical analysis of economic reality and economic science from an Aristotelian point of view. It is the result of many years of thinking and philosophical study about these topics. It differs from other philosophy of economics books as it also deals with economic reality (not only the science) and approaches its subject from an Aristotelian perspective. It differs from other Aristotelian studies about economics as it covers the whole of philosophy of the economy. This book argues why Aristotle’s thinking guarantees an appropriate interdisciplinary synthesis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319026480
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	11/27/2013
Series:	SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	154
File size:	396 KB

Table of Contents

Table of Contents.- Analytical Table of Contents.- Acknowledgments.- I. Introduction: Why a Philosophy of the Economy and Why an Aristotelian Approach?.- Part 1: “The Economic” and its Science: A Philosophical Approach.- II. “The Economic”.- III. Economic Science.- IV. Characteristics and Methods of Economic Science.- V. Economics and Ethics.- VI. Models and Measurements.- VII. Ideas on Economic Science and its Method over the Past Sixty Years.- Phase I:  Traditional Orthodoxy.- Phase II: “Mainstream Pluralism”.- Part 2: Economic Activity.- VIII. Economic Activities.- IX. Human Labor.- X. Capital and the Entrepreneurial Factor.- XI. Global Crises and Globalization.- XII. Concluding Remarks.