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1 online resource (xii, 352 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-340) and index. |
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I: Ancient economics and beyond -- The epic of Gilgamesh: on effectiveness, immortality, and the economics of friendship -- The Old Testament: earthliness and goodness -- Ancient Greece -- Christianity: spirituality in the material world -- Descartes the mechanic -- Bernard Mandeville's beehive of vice -- Adam Smith, blacksmith of economics -- II: Blasphemous thoughts -- Need for greed: the history of want -- Progress, new Adam, and Sabbath economics -- The axis of good and evil and the Bibles of economics -- The history of the invisible hand of the market and homo economicus -- The history of animal spirits: the dream never sleeps -- Metamathematics -- Masters of truth: science, myths, and faith -- Conclusion: where the wild things are. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economics -- Philosophy.
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Economics -- Philosophy. |
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Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Economics. |
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Good and evil.
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Good and evil. |
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Civilization -- History.
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Civilization. |
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History. |
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Literature and morals.
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Literature and morals. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Ekonomie dobra a zla. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010049421
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sedláček, Tomáš, 1977- Ekonomie dobra a zla. English. Economics of good and evil. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199767205 (DLC) 2010030271 (OCoLC)651487395 |
| ISBN |
9780199830619 (electronic book) |
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0199830614 (electronic book) |
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9780199767205 |
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0199767203 |
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