Overview
- Provides ethical arguments for the necessary role of the government for a well-functioning economy
- Generalizes the applicability of Musgrave’s concept of merit goods by connecting this concept to the neo-liberal economic philosophy
- Provides a Kantian argument to connect individual freedom with government regulation, oversight and intervention?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Economics (BRIEFSECONOMICS)
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Book Title: Ethical Reflections on the Financial Crisis 2007/2008
Book Subtitle: Making Use of Smith, Musgrave and Rajan
Authors: Wilfried Ver Eecke
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35091-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-35090-0Published: 05 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-35091-7Published: 05 January 2013
Series ISSN: 2191-5504
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5512
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 102
Topics: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Finance, general, Ethics, International Economics, International Political Economy, History of Economic Thought/Methodology