Publisher's Synopsis
The title of this book tells what it is about, namely, economics of which the purpose is the development of a human person. Economic freedom is not absolutely necessary for survival, and folks who want nothing more than mere survival prefer obedience to an authority that keeps them alive, but men and women who want more than mere survival take the risks that are necessary to attain freedom, because economic freedom makes personal development much easier and because of that more people become human persons when they are free to work for their own good. The first chapter states explicitly that it is better to be a well-developed person than a beastly human being. The rest of the book tells how good economics can help, and bad economics can hinder, that development. The longest chapter in the book is about handicapped people, because I am handicapped and have learned some things that most economists do not know. The book draws on the wisdom of hundreds of men and women, but the three most important thinkers are Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Adam Smith.This book is interdisciplinary, comprising economics, philosophy, and history.
