Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought

<p><em>Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy</em> argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of or downplayed in mainstream histories of economic thought. </p><p>The chapters show that organic aspects (that is aspects related to sensitive cognitive or social human qualities) were present in the economic ideas of a wide range of important thinkers including Hume Smith Malthus Mill Marshall Keynes Hayek and the Polanyi brothers. Moreover the contributors to this thought-provoking volume reveal in turn that these aspects were crucial to how these key figures thought about the economy. </p><p>This stimulating collection of essays will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of the history of economic thought economic philosophy heterodox economics moral philosophy and intellectual history.</p>