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In a reevaluation of the meaning of politics, it is argued that while economics contains theory & language that can facilitate an understanding of the public interest, it does not provide an escape from political disagreement, whether based on inevitable differences of interest or belief, or on self-serving efforts to advance one cause at the expense of another. As a language of discourse, economics is shown to be compatible with a broader conception of human nature than is sometimes claimed by its practitioners or acknowledged by its critics. 53 References. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay on a book by Brian Lee Crowley, The Self, the Individual and the Community: Liberalism in the Political Thought of F. A. Hayek and Sidney and Beatrice Webb (New York: Oxford U Press, 1987 [see listing in IRPS No. 54]). This book illuminates similarities between Hayek & the Webbs in their depoliticized economistic view of the nature of social thought. It is suggested that Crowley would better understand Hayek's (anti)politics if he considered the historical context from which it emerged. The form of Hayek's political anthropology (the individualist ethos of self-seeking enterprise) is attributed to the pluralistic nature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in which he was raised. Crowley's work is considered in line with the current interest of the Aristotelian conception of politics, centered on the idea of active, participatory citizenship. This revival emerges in opposition to the antipolitics of classical liberalism & socialism, & their failure to satisfactorily address the issue of the relationship of man, state, & society. L. Taub

Introduction : philosophy and politics in Aristotle's politics -- Aristotle's audiences -- Politics book I -- Aristotle's method in the politics -- The essential nature of the state and specific identities in Aristotle's politics -- Evaluating the goodness of regimes -- Why constitutions differ : causation in the politics -- The citizen and the sovereign office in the politics -- Polity and the middle regime in the politics -- The "best state absolutely