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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Economy of Recognition
    sub title: Person, Market and Society in Antonio Rosmini
  name:
    name part: Hoevel, Carlos.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 263 p. online resource.
  abstract: Introducing an alternative philosophical foundation to the study of economics, this book explains and adopts the perspective of the Italian philosopher Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855), whose interpretation of economic action was fundamentally at odds with the prevailing and all-conquering utilitarianism of modernity. Rosmini, one of the most important Italian and Catholic philosophers of the modern age, eschewed the traditional concepts of subjectivism and individualism at the core of the utilitarian thesis, prefiguring today’s critique of ‘autistic economics’ with his assertion that micro-economic formulae consecrating the ‘maximization of utility’ derive not from scientific principles or even hypotheses, but from uncritically adopted philosophical ideas. It was an assault on the determinism he perceived as the fatal flaw in accepted economic theory. Rosmini’s notion of human and economic action, based on human beings’ ‘personal’ capacities for objective knowledge, truth recognition, moral goodness and happiness, deeply transform the meaning of central economic activities such as labour, wealth creation and consumption, and become crucial factors in any analysis of the operation of the economy. After introducing the fundamentals of Rosmini’s thought, the author details the theoretical and institutional features of utilitarian economics, tracing their influence on social norms. He juxtaposes these with Rosmini’s alternative philosophy which places the concept of social justice at its heart, and which attempts to establish a framework for relations between the public and private realms. The contemporary case is then made for adopting Rosmini’s principles, thus changing an economic paradigm widely held to be unassailable. The fruit of unprecedented and systematic research on Rosmini’s economic ideas, this volume offers a detailed conceptual framework to guide alternative approaches to conventional neoclassical economics.
  table of contents: Contents -- Acknowledgement -- 1. Introduction: From Autism To Recognition -- 2. A Philosopher In Search For The Economy -- 3. The Utilitarian Paradigm -- 4. Recognizing The Truth: Human Action Beyond Utilitarianism -- 5. Economic Action, Happiness And Personalized Self-Interest -- 6. Rethinking Labor, Wealth And Consumption -- 7. Recognizing The Other: Rights And Ethics In Market Relations -- 8. A Critique Of Political Utilitarianism -- 9. Paths Towards Social Recognition -- 10. Instruments Of Economic Policy Under The Light -- 11. State Institutions, Civil Society, Family And Religion -- 12 Conclusion: Towards A New Economic Science -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Carlos Hoevel.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Methodology/History of Economic Thought
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Methodology of the Social Sciences
  classification: HC10-1085
  classification: 330.1509
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  identifier: 9789400760585
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6058-5
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