Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 019932218X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Sedlacek takes mainstream economics as his clay, digging both his arms in up to the elbows in an attempt to explain the beliefs and ethical values underlying modern economics." - The New York Times"There has long been a profound moral drive in Czech culture, seeking an ever larger view of the human, and trying to break through conceptual barriers to do so. I take it as the latter and I am certain the public will too." - Jan Svejnar, Professor of Business, Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan "A widely admired economist who sits on the National Economic Council in Prague radically rethinks his field, challenging assumptions about the business world in this work, a bestseller in the Czech Republic."-Publishers Weekly "Tomas Sedlacek proposes no less than a 'humanomics,' a view of our fate in this world of scarcity that takes account of human stories and philos
Tomas Sedlacek lectures at Charles University and is a member of the National Economic Council in Prague, where the original version of this book was a national bestseller and was also adapted as a popular theater-piece. He worked as an advisor of Vaclav Havel, the first Czech president after the fall of communism, and is a regular columnist and popular radio and TV commentator.
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. 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. 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. "Even the most sophisticated mathematical model," Sedlacek writes, "is, de facto, a story, a parable, our effort to (rationally) grasp the wo
Sedlacek gives us a new way to look at economics Very few book do I read that just surprise my by their originality. The Economics of God and Evil is one. Sedlacek is a Czech Economist, journalist and Economic Advisor to the first Czech President after the fall of communism. This book was originally written and published in Europe (and was adapted as a theater piece) before being reworked and now published in the US.Few really well documented books (footnotes are about a third of almost every page) also clearly explain fairly academic subjects as well as t. "John Wesley and Terry Pratchett in the same bibliography" according to Cy Helm. The author demonstrates familiarity with several disciplines - economics, philosophy, and Christian theology. He challenges all current economic schools, asking them to differentiate among what they know, what they don't know, and what they believe.. Petur O. Jonsson said A well written tour de force. This is a very ambitious book. It weaves together a variety of seemingly disparate ideas and comes up with an imaginative and coherent tapestry. In a nutshell, one might say that it is about meta-economics and the history of economic ideas. Sedlacek argues that the concerns of economics are also the concerns of myths, of theology, and of philosophy. Here, one of Selacek's points is that the rigorous structure and formal logic of modern day economics obscure the fact that it represents a narrative and that th