The Moral Conditions of Economic Efficiency
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- Author: Walter J. Schultz, Cedarville University, Ohio
- Date Published: March 2011
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In the late eighteenth century, Adam Smith significantly shaped the modern world by claiming that when people individually pursue their own interests, they are together led towards achieving the common good. But can a population of selfish people achieve the economic common good in the absence of moral constraints on their behavior? If not, then what are the moral conditions of market interaction which lead to economically efficient outcomes of trade? Answers to these questions profoundly affect basic concepts and principles of economic theory, legal theory, moral philosophy, political theory, and even judicial decisions at the appellate level. Walter Schultz illustrates the deficiencies of theories which purport to show that markets alone can provide the basis for efficiency. He demonstrates that efficient outcomes of market interaction cannot be achieved without moral normative constraints and then goes on to specify a set of normative conditions which make these positive outcomes possible.
Read more- Schultz rigorously proves that Adam Smith's ideas regarding the relationship between morality and markets are mistaken
- Schultz shows that achieving and sustaining an economically efficient economy requires a moral right to welfare
- The book transcends interminable ethical debates regarding markets and morality by its reliance on an account of morality as a social practice
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511838224
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction and synopsis
2. A contextualized proof of the first fundamental theorem of welfare economics
3. The moral thesis: moral normative constraints are necessary conditions of pareto-optimal equilibrium allocations of commodities achieved through market interaction
4. A spontaneous order objection
5. The roles of normative constraints in relation to externalities
6. The moral conditions of economic efficiency
7. Implications
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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