1st Edition
Ethical Codes and Income Distribution A Study of John Bates Clark and Thorstein Veblen
By Guglielmo Forges Davanzati
Copyright 2006
160 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
In contemporary non-mainstream economic debate, it is widely thought that the functioning of a market economy needs a set of rules (i.e. institutions) which bind agents in their behaviour, allowing efficient outcomes. This idea is contrary to the General Equilibrium Model (GEM) where markets are pictured as working in an institutional vacuum and where social and historical variables play no role.... Read more
Preface 1. The Genesis and the Spread of Ethical Codes 2. John Bates Clark 3. Thorstein Veblen 4. Ethical Codes and Income Distribution in the Neoclassical and Institutional Frameworks. Bibliography. Indexes
Biography
Davanzati, Guglielmo Forges
