A01=Irene van Staveren
Aristotelian Perspective
Aristotle's Essentialism
Aristotle’s Essentialism
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Author_Irene van Staveren
behaviour
Bourgeois Virtues
capabilities
Care Economy
Caring Labour
Category=KCA
Constrained Maximisation
Costa Rican Women
elster
endogenous
Endogenous Preferences
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eq_business-finance-law
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
ethical
Ethical Capabilities
Focus Group Discussion
GDP Growth
Good Life
Hargreaves Heap
Institutional Mediation
jon
klamer
man
Moral Embeddedness
Mother Theresas
NGO Supply
Non-instrumental Relationships
Non-linear Models
Non-linear Simulation Modelling
People's Smiles
People’s Smiles
rational
Rational Economic Man
Role Combination
Strange Attractors
UN
Product details
- ISBN 9780415241823
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In his Ethics, Aristotle argued that human beings try to further a variety of values by balancing them, stating that people try to find a middle road between excess and deficiency. The author develops and applies this idea to the values of economics, arguing that in the economy; freedom, justice and care are also balanced to further ends with scarce means. Freedom is furthered through market exchange, justice through a redistributive role of the state, and care through mutual gifts of labour and sharing of resources in the economy.
The book argues that economics is, and has always been, about human values, which guide, enable, constrain and change economic behaviour.
