Suspicions of Markets [electronic resource] Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century / by Donald Rutherford.

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging marke...

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Main Author: Rutherford, Donald (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
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Variant Title:
Suspicions of Markets: Critical Attacks From Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: The case for markets
  • Chapter 3: The start of the criticism: Aristotle
  • Chapter 4: After the Greeks
  • Chapter 5: Nineteenth century critics of the market
  • Chapter 6: Later critics-. Chapter 7: An analysis of the principal criticisms
  • Chapter 8: How to cope with flawed markets.