TY - BOOK ID - 346765 TI - Adam's fallacy : a guide to economic theology PY - 2006 SN - 9780674023093 9780674027299 0674023099 0674027078 0674027299 0674263529 9780674263529 9780674027077 PB - Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Economic order KW - Economic schools KW - Economics KW - Philosophy KW - 14 KW - 330.1 KW - Wijsgerige systemen en standpunten KW - Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie KW - 330.1 Economische grondbegrippen. Algemene begrippen in de economie KW - 14 Wijsgerige systemen en standpunten KW - Smith, Adam, KW - 14 Philosophical systems and points of view KW - Philosophical systems and points of view KW - Economics - Philosophy KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:346765 AB - This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends. ER -