Economic Philosophy

This exceptionally stimulating book begins by showing how the basic human need for a morality on which the conscience can work has led to the necessity for a philosophy of economics in any society. It is argued that the function of such a philosophy is to provide a rationale for justifying the image of humanism in men “not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway accords with principles.” The reasoning underlying ideology principles are traced from Adam Smith, through Marx and Keynes, to the distinctively that relate to current thinking and the prevailing attitudes toward the free market.

It would be difficult to think of a better book than this to begin to try to understand the values that underpin our economics. It provides all of statistics, and who needs to be sorted out, clearly and lucidly explained and uncomfortably examined.

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