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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 November 2009
      18 June 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511549649
      9780521801782
      9780521048279
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549649
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.399kg, 160 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.247kg, 160 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Law: General Interest, Law, Ethics, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
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    Subjects:
    Law: General Interest, Law, Ethics, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
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    In the late eighteenth century, Adam Smith significantly shaped the modern world by claiming that when people individually pursue their own interests, they are together led towards achieving the common good. But can a population of selfish people achieve the economic common good in the absence of moral constraints on their behavior? If not, then what are the moral conditions of market interaction which lead to economically efficient outcomes of trade? Answers to these questions profoundly affect basic concepts and principles of economic theory, legal theory, moral philosophy, political theory, and even judicial decisions at the appellate level. Walter Schultz illustrates the deficiencies of theories which purport to show that markets alone can provide the basis for efficiency. He demonstrates that efficient outcomes of market interaction cannot be achieved without moral normative constraints and then goes on to specify a set of normative conditions which make these positive outcomes possible.

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