Ethics and Economic Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9726620 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank H Knight (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1939 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 23 |
| Pages | 296 |
| Publication date | 1939-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2549292 |
| OpenAlex | W2313134031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
IN this paper we shall consider, in their relation to the problem of economic reform, two of the three general ethical methods or approaches which seem to be most important in Western civilisation as bases for the criticism of liberalism, and possible successors to it as the ethical basis of a social order. The three viewpoints referred to are Idealism, Marxism and Christianity.' For a discussion within the scope of an article, the respective viewpoints or conceptions must naturally be taken in a rather general interpretation, without any attempt at precise definition or references to the literature, or an adequate polemical defence of the view presented as to what constitutes the essential and distinctive principle of each. They will be considered more or less comparatively, in relation to liberalism, which, as the accepted moral basis of social order hitherto in our culture, seems to be entitled to the advantage of the onus probandi
Civilization · Criticism · Economics · Epistemology · Idealism · Interpretation (philosophy) · Law and economics · Liberalism · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Relation (database) · Scope (computer science) · Sociology · Viewpoints · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2020 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |