Philosophers of Capitalism
Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond
Contributions by Walter Block, Samuel Bostaph, Ricardo F. Crespo, Jeffrey M. Herbener, Richard C. B. Johnsson, Tibor R. Machan Chapman University's Argyros School of Business & Economics, Douglas B. Rasmussen St. Johns University, Murray N. Rothbard, Chris Matthew Sciabarra author of Ayn Rand: The R, Larry J. Sechrest, Barry Smith Mississippi University fo, Gloria Zúñiga Edited by Edward W. Younkins
Publication date:
10 November 2005Length of book:
376 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
234x184mm7x9"
ISBN-13: 9780739110768
Philosophers of Capitalism provides an interdisciplinary approach, attempting to discover the feasibility of an integration of Austrian Economics and Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. In the first section of the book, Edward W. Younkins supplies essays presenting the essential ideas of Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand. Building upon these essential ideas, the second portion of the book brings together scholarly perspectives from top academics, analyzing Menger, von Mises, and Rand. The third and final section of the book looks toward the future and the possibility of combining and extending the insights of these champions of a free society, emphasizing how the errors, omissions, and oversights made by one theorist can effectively be negated or compensated for by integrating insights from one or more of the others. Featuring a list of recommended reading for the major ideas and theorists discussed, Philosophers of Capitalism is an essential book for both philosophers and economists.
In his thought-provoking follow-up to Capitalism and Commerce, Edward Younkins makes a compelling case that the Austrian value-free defense of capitalism and the moral arguments of Aristotle and Ayn Rand are compatible and complimentary. He shows persuasively that the study of human action and of its grounding in natural law will reveal the intimate connection between economic and moral principles.