Don’t Let the Best Be the Enemy of the Good: A Stoic Defense of the Market

Jennifer A. Baker

Chapter Chapter 4 in Accepting the Invisible Hand, 2010, pp 69-86 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The moral relevance of general affluence is often overlooked. We might wish for humane conditions, we might talk of human value, but short of some minimal level of general affluence, life is too grim to entertain ethical notions beyond it. It seems we can hardly count the very poor of the world into our moral considerations. If everyone has to be considered, “well,” the ethicists seem to harrumph, “then we are dealing with too much need and everything thought conventionally moral is off the table!”

Keywords: Ethical Theory; Market System; Invisible Hand; General Affluence; Personal Ethic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230114319_4

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