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Title:

Accepting the invisible hand : market-based approaches to social-economic problems / edited by Mark D. White.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xvi, 197 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Free enterprise--Moral and ethical aspects.
Social policy--Moral and ethical aspects.
Social problems.

Other Authors:

White, Mark D., 1971-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Doing the right things : the private sector response to Hurricane Katrina as a case study in the bourgeois virtues / Steven Horwitz. Markets, discovery, and social problems / John Meadowcroft -- Economic freedom and global poverty / James D. Gwartney and Joseph S. Connors -- Don't let the best be the enemy of the good : a stoic defense of the market / Jennifer A. Baker -- Ethics in the Mayan marketplace / Benjamin Blevins, Guadalupe Ramirez, and Jonathan B. Wight -- Philantropy and the invisible hand : Hayek, Boulding, and beyond / Robert F. Garnett, Jr. -- Life in the market is good for you / Deirdre Nansen McCloskey -- Doing the right things : the private sector response to Hurricane Katrina as a case study in the bourgeois virtues / Steven Horwitz.

Series:

Perspectives from social economics

ISBN:

0230102492
9780230102491

OCLC:

(OCoLC)607977714

LCCN:

2010015501

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)