Rediscovering Political Economy

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Postell is assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.Bradley C.S. Watson is professor of political science at Saint Vincent College in Pennsylvania, where he holds the Philip M. McKenna Chair in American and Western Political Thought. Klappentext In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy in an attempt to reconnect the discipline of economics to larger discussions about the human good. The book shows how political ideas and economic theories can-and must-inform each other, and is essential reading for anyone interested in politics, economics, history, and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy Chapter 3 Chapter 1: The Moral Basis for Economic Liberty 4 Chapter 2: Restoring Sound Economic Thinking: What Natural Law Taught Us 5 Chapter 3: The Idea of Commerce in Enlightenment Political Thought 6 Chapter 4: Understanding Friedrich Engels (and Marx) and Adam Smith on Economic Organization and the Price Mechanism 7 Chapter 5: Ten (Mostly) Austrian Insights for These Trying Times 8 Part II: Political Economy and American Economic Experience 9 Chapter 6: Promoting the General Welfare: Political Economy for a Free Republic 10 Chapter 7: The Economic Theory of the American Founding 11 Chapter 8: Hamilton and Jefferson: Two Visions of Democratic Capitalism 12 Chapter 9: The Right Kind of Regulation: How the Founders Thought about Regulation 13 Chapter 10: American Banking from Birth to Bust, and All Points in Between

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Postell
• Assisted by: Joseph Postell (Editor), Postell Joseph (Editor), Bradley C. Watson (Editor), Bradley C. S. Watson (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2011
• EAN: 9780739166604
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-6660-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies