Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-316) and index.

Foreword / David Walsh -- 1. The Great Recession points us to the crisis of economics. Introduction ; An exploration: Toward recovering the truth and wealth of a "personcentric" economy -- 2. The free economy at the crossroads: still fit for purpose?. Introduction: Clarifying our economic "vision" ; The free conomy and its discontents ; The Austrian school's approach to economics ; An "Anthropological surd" giving rise to discontent within the free market process ; A legitimation-clarification question ; Conclusion -- 3. Toward a philosophy of economic order: retrieving the human meaning of the free economy. Introduction ; The meaning of meaning and the Free Market process ; Toward a differentiation of "good of order" ; Economic narratives: Why do economics lives differ? ; Conclusion -- 4 Entrepreneurial perspectives I: the primacy of person-centered economic creativity in the free market process. A fractured relationship: Toward recapturing the human creative aspect ; Joseph Schumpeter, prophet of a "Creative anthropology": A life ; The context of the eclipse of economic reality: A contribution toward an anthropological revivial ; Dynamic economic creativity: A Schumpeterian vision ; The Millennium bridge analogy ; Conclusion -- 5. Entrepreneurial perspectives II: a philosophical reflection on the role of the entrepreneur. The entrepreneur: who, which, what? ; Overshadowing and retrieval of the human dimension in the free economy ; Various perspectives on the entrepreneur in economic thought ; Schumpeter's entrepreneur: An emergent anthropology ; A rediscovery of the meaning of economic action ; Motivational considerations of the economic act ; Plato's Republic and the need for "Anthropological balance" ; Conclusion -- 6. Entrepreneurial perspectives III: a movement toward a higher anthropological viewpoint. The Great Recession in light of praxeological and anthropological considerations ; Narratives of anthropological economic disintegration ; Self-determination: The reality of "bias" in human action ; Misesian entrepreneurial action and expansions ; Mises on human action ; The "human creativity" of the entrepreneur ; The threat of anthropological anorexia: A never-ending story ; The fragility of the human person in the free economy process: Gnostic themes -- 7. Entrepreneurial perspectives IV: Eastern awakenings and Western alertness. Outside the window: J�anos Kornai's discovery of the "human-centered-ness" of economic life ; Kornai's barometer of anthropological reality: A person-centered perspective ; Kornai's entrepreneur as "system-specific" ; Israel Kirzner: On human alertness in the free economy ; Toward a more comprehensive vision of the acting human person ; Economics' need for a higher anthropological viewpoint -- 8. The real wellspring of human wealth revealed: an example from the Foxford Mills Entrepreneurial Project. Introduction: An illuminating visit to Foxford ; The story of an Irish industry: A case in history ; Agnes Morrogh-Bernard: A charismatic entrepreneur of the human person -- 9. Toward a philosophical anthropology of the free market economy: recapturing the human wealth of its person-centered roots. A reorientation of economics: The turn toward the "Human subject" ; The "subjective-objective" dimension in economics ; An enhanced understanding of "human intentionality" ; The British economis Philip Wicksteed's emphasis: The "economic relationship" ; A Polish-American Nobel Prize-Winning economist turns the spotlight on the human dimension ; Human action: Toward an anthropological enhancement -- 10 Being more: a trinitarian model applied to economic and social life. The Trinitarian model as a paradigm for the intrinsic integration of economic life ; The radical solution: The priority of the Other as Me ; The "person-centered" shift in economic reflections: The Bologna school of Thought ; The human person guarded by transcendence and mystery.

"Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century initiated a great debate not just about inequality but also regarding the failures found in the economic models used by theoreticians and practitioners alike. Wealth of Persons offers a totally different perspective that challenges the very terms of the debate. The Great Recession reveals a great existential rift at the core of certain economic reflections, thereby showing the real crisis of the crisis of economics. In the human sciences we have created a kind of "Tower of Babel" where we cannot understand each other any longer. The "breakdowns" occur equally on the personal, social, political, and economic levels. There is a need for an "about-face" in method to restore harmony among dissociated disciplines. Wealth of Persons offers a key to such a restoration, applying insights and analysis taken from different economic scholars, schools of thought, philosophical traditions, various disciplines, and charismatic entrepreneurs. Wealth of Persons aims at recapturing an adequate understanding of the acting human person in the economic drama, one that measures up to the reality. The investigation is a passport allowing entry into the land of economic knowledge, properly unfolding the anthropological meaning of the free economy." --