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Author:   Edward O'Boyle (Mayo Research Institute, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780415756839

ISBN 10:   0415756839
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   19 May 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 On the origins of values and premises in social economics; Chapter 1 Economic History as a Source of Socioeconomic Normative Value, Lewis E. Hill; Chapter 2 John Stuart Mill, Hans E. Jensen; Chapter 3 Philosophical Foundations of Social Economics, John E. Elliott; Part 2 On producing efficiently, turning a profit, and investing it; Chapter 4 Gain-Seeking, Peter L. Danner; Chapter 5 The Investment Decision as Moral Choice, Stephen T. Worland; Part 3 On justice, solidarity, and community; Chapter 6 Solidarity and Community in the World Economy, Kishor Thanawala; Chapter 7 Self-Interest, Economic Efficiency, and the General Welfare, Elba K. Brown-Collier; Part 4 On repairing the dysfunction of capitalist economies; Chapter 8 Doubts About Competition, Mark A. Lutz; Chapter 9 Ethical Conflicts in Managing the S&L Insurance Mess, Edward J. Kane; Chapter 10 The Civil World of Business, Severyn T. Bruyn; Part 5 On the transition from command economies; Chapter 11 Catholic Social Doctrine and the New World Order, Thomas O. Nitsch; Chapter 12 Ethical Policy Making in the Transition Economies, Christine Rider; Chapter 13 Telkom Teletra, Edward J. O’Boyle;

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Edward J. O’Boyle is a social economist whose work is grounded in a personalism which affirms the dignity of every human being, and which asserts that the central purpose of any economic system is to meet human material need. This work is probably best reflected in his book The Social Economics of Human Material Need.

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