Suspicions of Markets Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century /

• Main Author: Rutherford, Donald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: History > Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Macroeconomics.; Economic history.; Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Economic History.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Philosophy of History.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging marke...