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Ethical Reflections on the Financial Crisis 2007/2008

Making Use of Smith, Musgrave and Rajan

Wilfried Ver Eecke (Autor)

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X, 102 Seiten

2013
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-35090-0 (ISBN)

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In this book the author reflects on the philosophical and ethical bases of the financial crisis 2007-08 and the subsequent recession. He finds in Adam Smith solid arguments for the new free market economy, capitalism, but also arguments for a role for the government in the case of public goods (roads) and of merit goods (education, control of banking). Where the provision of public goods requires that the government respect consumer sovereignty there the provision of merit goods legitimizes the violation of that principle. By making use of the history of economic thought (e.g., the neo-liberal tradition) the author demonstrates that Musgrave's idea of merit goods can be expanded to eleven domains in which the government has an important function. He legitimizes that move by using the Kantian argument that we must accept the possibility conditions for what we want. The author demonstrates that Rajan, Reich and Reinhart & Rogoff make use of seven of his eleven categories of merit goods in order to explain the financial crisis 2007-08 and the subsequent recession. The author thereby provides a philosophical and ethical analysis of the government's failures at the basis of the financial crisis.

Wilfried Ver Eecke is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, Washington, DC since 1967. He specializes in Hegel, philosophy of psychoanalysis and philosophy of economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1966, did doctoral and post-doctoral work in Paris, Freiburg/i Br (Germany), Harvard and Bonn/Cologne (Germany). He studied economics at Georgetown University. He published, edited or translated seven books. He wrote more than one hundred articles. His publications have appeared in eleven languages.

Introduction.- Adam Smith and the Free Market.- The Concepts of Private, Public and Merit Goods.- Business Ethics and Eleven Categories of Merit Goods.- The Ethical and Socio-political Dimensions of the Financial Crisis of 2007-08 and the Subsequent Recession.- Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.1.2013
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Economics
Zusatzinfo	X, 102 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	193 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
Schlagworte	Adam Smith • Business Ethics • Financial Crisis • Free Market Economy • Merit Goods
ISBN-10	3-642-35090-9 / 3642350909
ISBN-13	978-3-642-35090-0 / 9783642350900
Zustand	Neuware