Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought

Gábor Bíró is an Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Philosophy and History of Science at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and a Research Fellow of the MTA Lendület Morals and Science Research Group at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary. He was awarded the History of Economics Society 'Craufurd Goodwin Best Article Prize' in 2021 for his paper on Michael Polanyi and the first economics film, published in the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Sympathies for Common Ends: The Principles of Organization in Hume’s Psychology and Political Economy Chapter 3: Adam Smith on Organic Change in Moral Beliefs Chapter 4: Malthusianism In and Out of Darwinism. Naturalising Society and Moralising Nature? Chapter 5: J.S. Mill’s Understanding of the “Organic” Nature of Socialism Chapter 6: The Concept of Organic Growth in Marshall’s Work Chapter 7: The Role of Keynes’s Idea of “Organic Unity” in his “General Theory” of Capitalism Chapter 8: Unintended Order and Self-Organization in the Evolutionary Social Theory of Friedrich Hayek Chapter 9: The Politics of Naturalizing the Economy: Organic Aspects in the Economic Thought of Karl and Michael Polanyi