Contributions

  • Beabout, Gregory R., 1960-. - Contributor

Publication

2002 - Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, Maryland

Language

English

Word Count

32,250 words, Guess

Page Count

129 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing342914
  • Goodreads1072625

Classifications

  • DDC128/.4
  • LCCBX1795.E27 B49 2002
  • LCCBX1795.E27B49 2001

Description

This volume presents the methodological and theoretical foundations for economic personalism through a detailed investigation of human action from two different, yet complementary perspectives : the personalist perspective of Karol Wojtyla in The Acting Person (1969) and the free-market perspective of Ludwig von Mises in Human Action (1949). By comparing and contrasting the viewpoints of Wojtyla and Mises, the authors develop a comprehensive praxeology (i.e., a theory of human action) capable of analyzing human action from moral and economic perspectives. Beyond Self-Interest illustrates how a unified praxeology could encourage more sustained analysis of the moral dimensions of economic activity while simultaneously softening the utilitarian prejudice of contemporary economic analysis.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Religion, politics, and society in the new millennium
  • Foundations of economic personalism

Other Editions

  • Beyond self-interest: a personalist approach to human actionLexington Books2002-01-01

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