America's Economic Moralists

Title Page
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Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
1. Introduction......Page 11
2. Colonial Faith: Work,Wealth, and the Wider Welfare......Page 23
3. Acting for Self ’s Sake: The Later Colonial Era......Page 35
4. Laissez-Faire for Americans......Page 45
5. Ethics Better than the Morals of Hermits......Page 59
6. Religious Socialism: The Communal Moravians......Page 71
7. Abolition: Human Dignity as a Boundary to Markets......Page 85
8. Social Darwinists of Different Species......Page 97
9. New Influences in Economics......Page 111
10. The Social Gospel and Catholic Thought Around 1900......Page 125
11. The 1920s and 1930s: Depressed Old Values......Page 141
12. Too Agnostic, Too Certain: Welfare Economics, Chicago Economics......Page 157
13. Moralists of Twentieth-Century Capitalism......Page 173
14. Unconventional Alternatives to the Conventional Wisdom......Page 187
15. An Ecumenical Consensuson Economic Ethics......Page 201
16. Summary, Assessments,and a Projection......Page 215
Notes......Page 227
Works Cited......Page 235
C......Page 243
E......Page 244
H......Page 245
M......Page 246
Q......Page 247
S......Page 248
W......Page 249