A Re-Assessment of Aristotle's Economic Thought

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Crespo, Ricardo F.

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ISBN:9780415820578
Editorial: Routledge
Fecha de la edición:2013
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Nº Pág.:168
Idiomas:Ingles

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/ Historia del Pensamiento Económico

The world has seen several financial and economic crises in the past few years. Psychological, ethical and philosophical levels of causal analysis have been discussed, and in this context, an interest in classical thinkers has emerged. The work of Aristotle has influenced writers from Marx and Menger to Amartya Sen. This book introduces us to Aristotle's thought on 'the economic' and on its influences on economists. First, it focuses on Aristotle's ideas, situating Aristotle in his historical context, describing his positions on the economic and analysing what kind of reality the economic is, its relation with ethics and with politics. Then, it determines what kind of science is concerned with the economic. Later, it analyses related topics and shows the influence of Aristotle's ideas on contemporary economists. It concludes by highlighting the Aristotelian contributions to today's economy. This scholarly volume offers important new insights into the Aristotelian approach to the economy itself, as well as to the idea of economics as a science, bringing Aristotle's views to bear on the modern economy.

1. Introduction: Economics as a Moral Science Part I 2. 'The Economic' and Chrematistics 3. An Ontological Analysis of Aristotle's Oikonomike and Chrematistics 4. Aristotle's Science of Economics 5. 'The Economic' and Ethics 6. 'The Economic' and Politics Part II 7. Eudaimonia and the Economics of Happiness 8. Capabilities, Incommensurability, and Practical Comparabitity 9. Aristotle on Causation and Explanation, and Current Social and Economic Science 10. Conclusion.