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- Shows how economics, political theory and ethics are based in pre-scientific intuitions about human nature and agency
- Explains how the Welfare State and Keynesian economics were more scientifically grounded and why they succeeded
- Advocates a scientific philosophy based on actual societies, economies and agreed values to enable humans to flourish
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Social Democracy
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The Philosophy of the Welfare State
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Book Title: On Civilizing Capitalism
Authors: Brian Ellis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29681-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29680-2Published: 16 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29683-3Due: 17 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29681-9Published: 15 June 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 254
Topics: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Economics, general