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The Crimes of the Economy: A Criminological Analysis of Economic Thought
Contributor(s): Ruggiero, Vincenzo (Author)
ISBN: 0415824109     ISBN-13: 9780415824101
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $161.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Business & Economics | Economics - Theory
Dewey: 330.1
LCCN: 2013005483
Series: Organizational Crime
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.15 lbs) 208 pages
 
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Economists have often paid visits to the field of criminology, examining the rational logic of offending. When economists examine criminal activity, they imply that offenders should be treated like any other social actor making rational choices.

In The Crimes of the Economy, Vincenzo Ruggiero turns the tables by examining a variety of economic schools of thought from a criminological perspective. Each one of these schools, he argues, justifies or even encourages harm produced by economic initiative. He investigates - among others - John Locke's notion of private property, Mercantilism, the Physiocrats and Malthus, and the arguments of Adam Smith, Marshall, Keynes and neoliberalism. In each of these, the author identifies the potential justification of different forms of 'crimes of the economy' and victimisation.

This book re-examines the history of economic thought, assessing it as the history of a discipline which, while attempting to gain scientific status, in reality seeks to make the social harm caused by economics acceptable. The book will be interesting and relevant to students and scholars of social theory, criminology, economics, philosophy and politics.