Reflections on Commercial Life

An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to the Present
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-91195-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 871 g

Reflections on Commercial Life, an anthology of writings, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary thinkers, provides students, scholars, and general readers an opportunity to develop a more self-conscious and critical relationship to commercial life. Selections are drawn from seminal works of high intellectual and literary quality. Through an inquiry into history, nature, and outcomes, this volume offers the opportunity to explore, as never before, alternatives to modern commercial life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murray, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Plato (c. 427–c.347 B.C); Chapter 2 Aristotle (384–322 B.C.); Chapter 3 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274); Chapter 4 St. Thomas More (1478–1535); Chapter 5 John Locke (1632–1704); Chapter 6 Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733); Chapter 7 David Hume (1711–1776); Chapter 8 Adam Smith (1723–1790); Chapter 9 James Madison (1751–1836); Chapter 10 Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805); Chapter 11 G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831); Chapter 12 Karl Marx (1818–1883); Chapter 13 John Stuart Mill (1806–1873); Chapter 14 Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929); Chapter 15 Georg Simmel (1858–1918); Chapter 16 Max Weber (1864–1920); Chapter 17 Marcel Mauss (1872–1950); Chapter 18 Georges Bataille (1897–1962); Chapter 19 Simone Weil (1909–1943); Chapter 20 Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992); Chapter 21 Hannah Arendt (1906–1975); Chapter 22 Daniel Bell (1919– ); Chapter 23 Jean Baudrillard (1929– );

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Murray is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, and the author of Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988).