The idea of natural law and the moral content of economics

Abstract

Attempts to trace the evolution of the major ideas of the natural law and in this way shed some light on the ethical contents of economics. Asks the reader to ponder some of the perennial questions such as: What is primary, ego or social association? Is man a social animal by nature? Is man a political animal? Is the justification for human existence to be found in the individual alone or in the social whole? Is society a synthesis of individuals, or does it contain something more than the simple totality of individuals?

Citation

Riha, T.J.F. (1998), "The idea of natural law and the moral content of economics", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 25 No. 10, pp. 1520-1551. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299810214070