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A social morality for mortals: A review essay of the order of public reason: A theory of freedom and morality in a diverse and bounded world

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  • Peter J. Boettke

    (George Mason University)

  • Rosolino A. Candela

    (George Mason University)

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This essay praises Gerald Gaus’s The Order of Public Reason as a building block for all normative explorations into the institutional foundations of human sociability. It evaluates the normative implications put forth by Gaus in terms of the Kirzner’s “finder’s keeper’s ethic.” This raises a question about the relationship between the moral order and the political order that underlies market processes. Examining the role of entrepreneurship in the market process in relation to Kirzner’s “finder’s keeper’s principle” suggests a deeper ethical foundation that underpins the institutional conditions of “social morality.”

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  • Peter J. Boettke & Rosolino A. Candela, 2017. "A social morality for mortals: A review essay of the order of public reason: A theory of freedom and morality in a diverse and bounded world," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 30(3), pages 365-375, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:revaec:v:30:y:2017:i:3:d:10.1007_s11138-016-0360-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s11138-016-0360-1
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    Keywords

    Gerald Gaus; Israel Kirzner; Socialist calculation debate; Political economy;
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    • B2 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925
    • B53 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Austrian
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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