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Economics of Good and Evil

The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

By: Tomas Sedlacek

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Economics of Good and Evil

The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

By: Tomas Sedlacek

Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil. In The Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field, challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as a science, a value-free mathematical inquiry, he writes, but it's actually a cultural phenomenon, a product of our civilization. It began within philosophy--Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations, but also The Theory of Moral Sentiments--and economics, as Sedlacek shows, is woven out of history, myth, religion, and ethics. "Even the most sophisticated mathematical model," Sedlacek writes, "is, de facto, a story, a parable, our effort to (rationally) grasp the world around us." Economics not only describes the world, but establishes normative standards, identifying ideal conditions. Science, he claims, is a system of beliefs to which we are committed. To grasp the beliefs underlying economics, he breaks out of the field's confines with a tour de force exploration of economic thinking, broadly defined, over the millennia. He ranges from the epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to the emergence of Christianity, from Descartes and Adam Smith to the consumerism in Fight Club. Throughout, he asks searching meta-economic questions: What is the meaning and the point of economics? Can we do ethically all that we can do technically? Does it pay to be good? Placing the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathematical models of human behavior, Sedlacek's groundbreaking work promises to change the way we calculate economic value.

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Oxford University Press

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0199830614

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Promoting National Priorities in EU Foreign Policy

The Czech Republic’s Foreign Policy in the EU

By: Tomas Weiss

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Promoting National Priorities in EU Foreign Policy

The Czech Republic’s Foreign Policy in the EU

By: Tomas Weiss

How do smaller member states promote their interests in EU foreign policy and external relations? EU membership can be seen to affect member states’ foreign policy in two ways, either by restricting national policies or empowering states in a challenging global environment. There is a general agreement, however, that the member states, especially smaller ones, have to engage actively in policy-making in order to promote their particular interest. This cross-policy comparison of the behaviour of Czech Republic’s representatives in the Council and the methods they use to influence the decision-making applies categorisation from lobbying literature to analyse the behaviour of the member state’s representatives and contributes to two strands of scholarship on European Union politics - decision-making in the EU and Europeanization. The book maps the methods of interest promotion that can be used by a member state and analyses the differences in interest promotion across external policy areas.

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Routledge

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1315443821

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9781315443829

Economics of Good and Evil

The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

By: Tomas Sedlacek

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Economics of Good and Evil

The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street

By: Tomas Sedlacek

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Economics of Good and Evil

Economics of Good and Evil

Promoting National Priorities in EU Foreign Policy

Promoting National Priorities in EU Foreign Policy

Economics of Good and Evil

Economics of Good and Evil

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