Principles of Ethical Economy

by Peter Koslowski

Book Overview

John Maynard Keynes wrote to his grandchildren more than fifty years ago about their economic possibilities, and thus about our own: "I see us free, there- fore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue - that avarice is a vice, that the exaction of usury is a misde- meanour. . . . We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful" ("Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792367138
• ISBN13: 9780792367130
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"