Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element (Culture of Enterprise) - Tapa blanda

Mueller is that rarest of thinkers and writers: one who can make the dismal science thoroughly engaging at a very human level a man who knows his economics but never loses sight of people amidst a forest of data. George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center " Mueller opens discussion on essential topics for people of all faiths, political orientations, and worldviews and does so in ways that probe the limits of rational choice and foster interdisciplinary conversation. Choice " Bold, interesting, and thought-provoking a book that could fundamentally reground the discipline of economics and reorient the study of political economy. William Kristol, the Weekly Standard " Both Washington and Wall Street sorely need Redeeming Economics. Larry Kudlow " The scope of Mueller s intellectual ambition in this book is truly astonishing, as is the scope of the research involved. . . . People should invest the time needed to read, absorb, and promote this important book. Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD, in The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy " Mueller is that rarest of thinkers and writers: one who can make the dismal science thoroughly engaging at a very human level a man who knows his economics but never loses sight of people amidst a forest of data. George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center" Both Washington and Wall Street sorely need "Redeeming Economics." Larry Kudlow" Mueller opens discussion on essential topics for people of all faiths, political orientations, and worldviews and does so in ways that probe the limits of rational choice and foster interdisciplinary conversation. "Choice"" Bold, interesting, and thought-provoking a book that could fundamentally reground the discipline of economics and reorient the study of political economy. William Kristol, the "Weekly Standard"" The scope of Mueller s intellectual ambition in this book is truly astonishing, as is the scope of the research involved. . . . People should invest the time needed to read, absorb, and promote this important book. Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD, in "The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy"" "Mueller is that rarest of thinkers and writers: one who can make the 'dismal science' thoroughly engaging at a very human level--a man who knows his economics but never loses sight of people amidst a forest of data." --George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center "Mueller opens discussion on essential topics for people of all faiths, political orientations, and worldviews and does so in ways that probe the limits of rational choice and foster interdisciplinary conversation." --"Choice" "Bold, interesting, and thought-provoking--a book that could fundamentally reground the discipline of economics and reorient the study of political economy." --William Kristol, the "Weekly Standard" "Both Washington and Wall Street sorely need "Redeeming Economics"." --Larry Kudlow "The scope of Mueller's intellectual ambition in this book is truly astonishing, as is the scope of the research involved. . . . People should invest the time needed to read, absorb, and promote this important book." --Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD, in "The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy"

Economics is primed for-and in desperate need of-a revolution, respected economic forecaster John D. Mueller shows in this eye-opening book. To make this leap forward will require looking backward, for as Redeeming Economics reveals, the most important element of economic theory has been ignored for more than two centuries. Since the great Adam Smith tore down this pillar of economic thought, Mueller shows, economic theory has been unable to account for a fundamental aspect of human experience: the relationships that define us, the loves (and hates) that motivate and distinguish us as persons. In trying to reduce human behaviour to exchanges, modern economists have forgotten how these essential motivations are expressed: as gifts (or their opposite, crimes). Mueller makes economics whole again, masterfully reapplying the economic thought of Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas.