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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The case for markets
• Chapter 3: The start of the criticism: Aristotle
• Chapter 4: After the Greeks
• Chapter 5: Nineteenth century critics of the market
• Chapter 6: Later critics-. Chapter 7: An analysis of the principal criticisms
• Chapter 8: How to cope with flawed markets.