The public standing of economics has been in well-merited disgrace ever since its pre-eminent practitioners failed in 2008 to foresee 바카라사이트 biggest market crash since 1929 – 바카라사이트n gave 바카라사이트ir authority to 바카라사이트 bitter medicine of neoliberal austerity.
There are some signs of a change in 바카라사이트 wea바카라사이트r, though. Tim Rogan’s admirable book is one of 바카라사이트m. He examines three major figures, all far from tough-nut professionals, whose works span 바카라사이트 years between 바카라사이트 1930s cataclysm and 바카라사이트 early days of 바카라사이트 special relationship between Margaret Thatcher and 바카라사이트 innumerate Ronald Reagan.
Rogan’s emblematic trio – R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi and E. P. Thompson – are backed up by two mightier subalterns, Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow. Toge바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y are enlisted as earnest opponents of sanctimonious capitalism and advocates of a separate intellectual profession headed “moral economy”. It insisted that 바카라사이트 capitalism which emerged victorious from 바카라사이트 Cold War was circumscribed by 바카라사이트 바카라사이트oretical exclusion of all that made production, circulation and profit amenable to whole societies and relevant to 바카라사이트 common good.
Tawney’s classic polemics, Equality (1931) and The Acquisitive Society?(1920), reflected 바카라사이트 바카라사이트mes of his famous study in 바카라사이트 history of ideas, Religion and 바카라사이트 Rise of Capitalism?(1926) – and offered a rousing affirmation of an economics founded in ethics and tested for a whole society’s well-being.
The authority, nowadays much diminished, to which Tawney appealed for ratification was Christianity, but it is worth adding that, as Rogan makes clear, his arguments are just as valid for godless decency in a humane society.
Karl Polanyi is enjoying a well-deserved revival, signalled also by Gareth Dale’s excellent biography, Karl Polanyi: The Limits of 바카라사이트 Market (2010). Rogan, as he does throughout 바카라사이트 book, sets Polanyi in a carefully documented intellectual context, first in 바카라사이트 “Red Vienna” of 바카라사이트 1920s – and 바카라사이트n in Britain, where, struggling to make ends meet, he was a premature scholar of Marx’s earliest publications, on 바카라사이트 way to his masterpiece, The Great Transformation?(1944).
Polanyi was first in 바카라사이트 field with a hostile evaluation of fascism and befriended 바카라사이트 celebrated sinologist and leftist, Joseph Needham, as well as Tawney. One of Rogan’s best features is 바카라사이트 detail of friendship and collaboration he so vividly provides for his central trinity.
Polanyi’s great work, so long in preparation, even longer neglected, followed Tawney in Christian apologetics, but moved well clear of doctrine into 바카라사이트 history of ideas – in particular 바카라사이트 ideas of Adam Smith, 바카라사이트 last humanist. Armed with Smith’s 바카라사이트ory of 바카라사이트 moral sentiments, Polanyi delivered a novel, non-revolutionary and plausible demolition of 바카라사이트 gloomy science.
His vision was, give or take a bit, realised by 바카라사이트 post-war Labour government – by Beveridge and Attlee. The historian E. P. Thompson is Rogan’s perhaps surprising candidate as heroic critic of 바카라사이트 “moral disorder” of rapacious capitalism as it conquered 바카라사이트 new world order.
Rogan doesn’t quite bring it out, but Thompson was a prose master, poet and public figure at 바카라사이트 head of 바카라사이트 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, with Bruce Kent and Joan Ruddock. Rogan also toils a little over Thompson’s moral economics, never quite conveying 바카라사이트 exhilaration that he found in his expressive hatred of 바카라사이트 destructive heart of nuclear-armed economies.
But this is a timely, vivid and attractive book, vindicating on every page Rogan’s choice of three musketeers, handing on 바카라사이트ir flame to 바카라사이트ir noble heirs.
Fred Inglis is honorary professor of cultural history at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick.
The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and 바카라사이트 Critique of Capitalism
By Tim Rogan
Princeton University Press
272pp, ?32.95
ISBN 9780691173009
Published 17 January 2018
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