Philosophy of the Economy An Aristotelian Approach /

• Main Author: Crespo, Ricardo F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Epistemology.; Ethics.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Political philosophy.; Economic history.; Classical Philosophy.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Political Philosophy.
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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 (...

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: ́ƠSThe EconomićƠý and its Science: A Philosophical Approach
• II. ́ƠSThe EconomićƠý
• 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: ́ƠSMainstream PluralisḿƠý
• Part 2: Economic Activity
• VIII. Economic Activities
• IX. Human Labor
• X. Capital and the Entrepreneurial Factor
• XI. Global Crises and Globalization
• XII. Concluding Remarks.