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Conserative Capitalism

The Social Economy

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  • © 1999

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  1. David Reisman
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • David Reisman
    Pages 1-14

  3. Choice

    • David Reisman
    Pages 15-47

  4. Inductive Conservatism

    • David Reisman
    Pages 48-78

  5. Economy and Society

    • David Reisman
    Pages 79-109

  6. Convention

    • David Reisman
    Pages 110-132

  7. Evolution and Economy

    • David Reisman
    Pages 133-166

  8. Individual and Interest

    • David Reisman
    Pages 167-188

  9. The Ethical Constraint

    • David Reisman
    Pages 189-222

  10. Structure as Capital

    • David Reisman
    Pages 223-257

  11. Conclusion

    • David Reisman
    Pages 258-260

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 261-277
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This book is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the essential relationship between markets and morals. Smith, Burke and Marx, Durkheim, Polyani and Hayek - all sought to situate market exchange and property-based acquisitiveness in the broader context of human interaction and social values. This framework of interdependence and ethics embeds the capitalist market economy in an ongoing whole of which the calculative present-day is but a part. The book argues that the stability of conservatism anchors the dynamism of entrepreneurship in a matrix of patterns and habits without which orderly free enterprise would be at risk of degenerating into the Hobbesian war of each against all.

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'A carefully measured account of the key intellectual work, examining the relationship between markets and morals.' - Michael Pollitt, The Times Higher Education Supplement

About the author

David Reisman is Professor of Economics in the University of Surrey.

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