Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays

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Barrington Moore

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The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture

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The author, a thinker in critical theory and historical sociology, has long been concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behaviour in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under 20th-century Soviet socialism. The social sources of antisocial behaviour; principles of social inequality; and the origins, enemies and possibilities of rational discussion in public affairs are among the topics Moore considers as he seeks to uncover the historical causes of some accepted forms of morality and to assess their social consequences. The keynote essay examines how moral codes grew out of commercial practices in England from medieval times through the industrial revolution. Moore pays special attention to conceptions of honesty and the temptation to evade that informs the volume as a whole. In other essays, he considers particular political issues, viewing "political" in its broadest sense as an unequal distribution of power and authority that carries a strong moral charge.

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The late Barrington Moore Jr. (1913–2005) was a Senior Research Fellow at the Russian Research Center of Harvard University from 1947 to 1979. His most well-known work, and one of the keystones of American sociology, is Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy.

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June 11th, 1998

Author

Barrington Moore

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

200

Series

The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture

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152x229x22

ISBN-13

9780801433764

Product ID

2210688

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