Moral Economists

* Book: The Moral Economists. By Tim Rogan. Princeton University Press, 2018

URL = http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2018/01/16/tim-rogan-whats-wrong-with-capitalism/

Description

"What’s wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted in utilitarian terms, the critique of capitalism in the twenty-first century is primarily concerned with disparities in income and wealth. It was not always so. In The Moral Economists, Tim Rogan reconstructs another critical tradition, developed across the twentieth century in Britain, in which material deprivation was less important than moral or spiritual desolation. Examining the moral cornerstones of a twentieth-century critique of capitalism, The Moral Economists explains why this critique fell into disuse, and how it might be reformulated for the twenty-first century."