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Book Review: Natural Law, Economics, and the Common Good , edited by Samuel Gregg and Harold James

Book Review: Natural Law, Economics, and the Common Good , edited by Samuel Gregg and Harold James (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2012), xiii + 320 pp., isbn 9781845403119 (pbk). £17.95/$34.90. This collection of fourteen essays attempts to bring natural law to bear on matters economic. The essays in Part 1 address “Natural Law and Economics,” those in Part 2, “Economics and the Common Good.” Whereas the idea of natural law receives explicit attention from historical and contemporary perspectives, only the essay by Louis W. Pauly makes an explicit connection with the common good. (Note that the editors’ Introduction is the more reliable guide to where an essay topically belongs than is the Table of Contents or chapter location, which groups Pauly’s essay in Part 1.) The six historical essays on natural law and economics are quite interesting, and deserve a separate section in the book. Generally, the authors attempt to establish the historical and global reach of natural-law themes, often with a view to their contemporary relevance. Emma Rothschild sets the stage in her “Faith, Enlightenment, and Economics,” which makes the case that David Hume and Adam Smith, indeed Enlightenment thinkers generally, shared a kind of faith, namely in a universal human nature and a sense that deep inequalities and injustice elsewhere in the world should http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Moral Philosophy Brill

Book Review: Natural Law, Economics, and the Common Good , edited by Samuel Gregg and Harold James

Rehg, William
Journal of Moral Philosophy , Volume 11 (6): 773 – Nov 10, 2014
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© 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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1740-4681
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10.1163/17455243-01106003
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(Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2012), xiii + 320 pp., isbn 9781845403119 (pbk). £17.95/$34.90. This collection of fourteen essays attempts to bring natural law to bear on matters economic. The essays in Part 1 address “Natural Law and Economics,” those in Part 2, “Economics and the Common Good.” Whereas the idea of natural law receives explicit attention from historical and contemporary perspectives, only the essay by Louis W. Pauly makes an explicit connection with the common good. (Note that the editors’ Introduction is the more reliable guide to where an essay topically belongs than is the Table of Contents or chapter location, which groups Pauly’s essay in Part 1.) The six historical essays on natural law and economics are quite interesting, and deserve a separate section in the book. Generally, the authors attempt to establish the historical and global reach of natural-law themes, often with a view to their contemporary relevance. Emma Rothschild sets the stage in her “Faith, Enlightenment, and Economics,” which makes the case that David Hume and Adam Smith, indeed Enlightenment thinkers generally, shared a kind of faith, namely in a universal human nature and a sense that deep inequalities and injustice elsewhere in the world should

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Published: Nov 10, 2014

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