Accepting the Invisible Hand: Market-Based Approaches to Social-Economic Problems

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (first book in the series Perspectives from Social Economics)

DESCRIPTION

This collection of essays by prominent economists and philosophers showcases the important contributions that markets can make to important topics within social economics, including practical issues such as poverty and disaster relief, as well as more general concerns regarding ethics and well-being.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I blogged extensively about this book at Economics and Ethics, including the entire preface and posts about each chapter:

Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Mark D. White, "Markets and Dignity: The Essential Link (with an Application to Health Care)"

Chapter 2: John Meadowcroft, "Markets, Discovery and Social Problems"

Chapter 3: James Gwartney and Joseph Connors, "Economic Freedom and Global Poverty"

Chapter 4: Jennifer A. Baker, "Don’t Let the Best Be the Enemy of the Good: A Stoic Defense of the Market"

Chapter 5: Benjamin Blevins, Guadalupe Ramirez, and Jonathan B. Wight, "Ethics in the Mayan Marketplace"

Chapter 6: Robert F. Garnett, Jr., "Philanthropy and the Invisible Hand: Hayek, Boulding, and Beyond"

Chapter 7: Deirdre N. McCloskey, "Life In the Market Is Good for You"

Chapter 8: Steven Horwitz, "Doing the Right Things: The Private Sector Response to Hurricane Katrina as a Case Study in the Bourgeois Virtues"

 

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