 Sraffa: Notes on Moralizing, Money, and Economic PrudencePeter Edwards Chapter 9 in Sraffa or An Alternative Economics, 2008, pp 211-226 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract In his published work, Sraffa did not investigate the economic role of specific ethical considerations, the ethical role of economics or the ethical significance of economic prudence. He is reported to have possessed a strong moral sense, yet as with many economists, to also have had a distaste for ‘moralizing’. However, it would be quite wrong to think that Sraffa’s formal, condensed, even at times hermetic style allied him even in his distaste for moralizing with those economists whose distaste arose from quite contrary sources. The issue of what ‘moralizers’ are doing and why they can meet with such hostility will be taken up in Section I. This is followed by a discussion of the ethical significance of economic prudence, that is, of the orientation to the world which it expresses (Section II). Section III examines the exception Sraffa takes to Hayek’s conception of money in his review of Prices & Production; and Section IV concludes on the ethical significance of money. Keywords: Ethical Significance; Moral Consideration; Alternative Economic; Ethical Role; Ethical Projection (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37533-8_10 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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