http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/07/re-krugman-klein-keynes-markets.html
This was a great old post on laissez faire.
Reading The Rise Of Social Theory, brings to mind what economists and business theorists, and also myself, have long forgotten, that the Scottish and French Enlightenments largely, out of which these economic and commercial views emerged, were also in great part based originally, and only in part, on moral philosophy ideas.
With disciplinary specialization, and compartmentalization, also treated in The Rise, these moral philosophy underpinnings gradually fell, were pruned, or withered, away, and also mostly disappeared between the interstices of the more diversified and ramified modern disciplines.
This was why, for example, that Winch's book, The Idea Of A Social Science And Its Relation To Philosophy, was not happily received within other disciplines than philosophy, and even then, well received mainly within only the one camp of philosophy of social science itself.
I will try to explain, at some point, how it was that moral philosophy, now largely extinct, nevertheless, back then, albeit as part of this larger multidisciplinary project in the 17th and 18th Centuries, took a wrong turn.
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