America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics

CHOICE

“…Frey’s book is a timely and welcome contribution to the literature on ethics in business and economics. He provides scholars the much-needed historical background on the development of thoughts related to economic morality since Colonial times.”

Christian Century

“…a monumental project that surveys the work of over 100 writers and their treatment of autonomy and relational morality … America’s Economic Moralists is an invaluable resource. Frey’s two categories of moralists provide an innovative typology around which constructive discussion of morality and economics can occur.”

EH.net

“…America’s Economic Moralists is one of those still rare academic explorations of this subject … The strength of Frey’s book lies in the author’s ability to condense the study of a quite large number of schools of economic morality into workable, chronologically directed chapters … provide[s] a useful lens for thinking through competing visions of economic morality in America, and underscores the truth that there is no such thing as a value-free economic science.”

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology

“Do not be deceived by the apparent thinness of this book. The mere 216 pages are dense, the subject is weighty … there is probably no one out there except for Frey who brings to the subject of economics and ethics the impressive historical breadth of this book.”

Review of Social Economics

“…a book full of new thoughts and ideas … It is a book that is needed and ought to be widely read so that everyone might come to understand what lies behind their thinking.”