Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element (Culture of Enterprise) - Softcover

Mueller, John D.

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9781932236958: Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element (Culture of Enterprise)

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“Groundbreaking.” —Washington Examiner

“Mueller is an extraordinarily learned man.” —Claremont Review of Books

Economics is primed for—and in desperate need of—a revolution, respected economic forecaster John D. Mueller shows in this eye-opening book. To make this leap forward will require looking backward, for as Redeeming Economics reveals, the most important element of economic theory has been ignored for more than two centuries.

Since the great Adam Smith tore down this pillar of economic thought, Mueller shows, economic theory has been unable to account for a fundamental aspect of human experience: the relationships that define us, the loves (and hates) that motivate and distinguish us as persons. In trying to reduce human behavior to exchanges, modern economists have forgotten how these essential motivations are expressed: as gifts (or their opposite, crimes). Mueller makes economics whole again, masterfully reapplying the economic thought of Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas.

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About the Author

John D. Mueller is the director of the Economics and Ethics Program of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is also president of LBMC LLC, a firm specializing in economic and financial-market forecasting and economic policy analysis. From 1979 through 1988 he served as economist and speechwriter to then-Congressman Jack Kemp, helping draft key features of President Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts of 1981 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Mueller’s articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, National Review, the Chesterton Review, and the Harvard Business Review. He and his wife live in Washington, D.C.

Review

“The scope of Mueller’s intellectual ambition in this book is truly astonishing, as is the scope of the research involved. . . . People should invest the time needed to read, absorb, and promote this important book.” —Jennifer Roback Morse, PhD, in The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy

“Both Washington and Wall Street sorely need Redeeming Economics.” —Larry Kudlow

“Bold, interesting, and thought-provoking—a book that could fundamentally reground the discipline of economics and reorient the study of political economy.” —William Kristol, the Weekly Standard

“Mueller opens discussion on essential topics for people of all faiths, political orientations, and worldviews and does so in ways that probe the limits of rational choice and foster interdisciplinary conversation.” —Choice

“Mueller is that rarest of thinkers and writers: one who can make the ‘dismal science’ thoroughly engaging at a very human level—a man who knows his economics but never loses sight of people amidst a forest of data.” —George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center

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