01525cam a2200265Mi 4500 on1196079820 OCoLC ta 210122r20202019enk e b 001 0 eng 9780141986951 0141986956 (OCoLC)1196079820 HM548 .A43 2020 Aldred, Jonathan. Licence to be bad : how economics corrupted us / Jonathan Aldred. [London] : Penguin Books, 2020. 310 p. Reprint. Originally published: 2009. Includes bibliographical references and index. Over the past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right' has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to our grandparents' generation might have seemed stupid, harmful or simply wicked now seems rational, natural, woven into the very logic of things. And, asserts Jonathan Aldred in this revelatory book, it's economics that's to blame. Licence to be Bad tells the story of how a group of economics theorists changed our world, and how a handful of key ideas seeped into our decision-making and, indeed, almost all aspects of our lives. Aldred reveals the extraordinary hold of economics on our morals and values. Economics has corrupted us. But if this hidden transformation is so recent, it can be reversed. Licence to be Bad shows us where to begin. Economics Sociological aspects. Ethics. Economics Moral and ethical aspects. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 HM548 .A43 2020 PNLIB21060115 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 301 301