Ethics And Economic Theory

Author : Khalid Mir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0367504359

Get Book

Ethics and Economic Theory by Khalid Mir Pdf

This book takes a multi-disciplinary critique of economics' first principles: the fundamental and inter-related structuring assumptions that underlie the neo-classical paradigm. These assumptions, that economic agents are rational, self-interested individuals, continue to influence the teaching of economics, research agendas and policy analyses. The book argues that both the theoretical understanding of the economy and the actual working of real-world market economies diminish the scope for thinking about the relation between ethics, economics, and the economy. It highlights how market economies may "crowd out" ethical behavior and our evaluation of them elides ethical reflection. The book calls for a more pluralistic and richer approach to economic theory, one that allows ample room for ethical considerations. It provides insight into understanding human motivations and human flourishing and how a good economy requires reflection on the ethical relations between the self, world, and time.

Author : William B. Greer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781959315

Get Book

Ethics and Uncertainty by William B. Greer Pdf

This study explores how two economists, who both placed "uncertainty" at the heart of their economic theories, came to drastically different and opposing policy recommendations. The volume illustrates the important lesson to be learned from Keynes and Knight.

Author : Khalid Mir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351184434

Get Book

Ethics and Economic Theory by Khalid Mir Pdf

This book takes a multi-disciplinary critique of economics’ first principles: the fundamental and inter-related structuring assumptions that underlie the neo-classical paradigm. These assumptions, that economic agents are rational, self-interested individuals, continue to influence the teaching of economics, research agendas and policy analyses. The book argues that both the theoretical understanding of the economy and the actual working of real-world market economies diminish the scope for thinking about the relation between ethics, economics, and the economy. It highlights how market economies may "crowd out" ethical behavior and our evaluation of them elides ethical reflection. The book calls for a more pluralistic and richer approach to economic theory, one that allows ample room for ethical considerations. It provides insight into understanding human motivations and human flourishing and how a good economy requires reflection on the ethical relations between the self, world, and time.

Author : Mark D. White,Irene van Staveren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317988861

Get Book

Ethics and Economics by Mark D. White,Irene van Staveren Pdf

Since the days of Adam Smith, ethics and economics have been closely intertwined, and were nominally separated only with the advent of neoclassical economics in the beginning of the last century. This book features eleven essays by leading scholars in economics and philosophy who argue for a renewal of the bond between the two disciplines. Several of the contributors argue that the ethical content of economics and moral status of the market have been misunderstood, for better and for worse. Some recommend changes in the way that individual economic choice is modelled, in order to incorporate ethical as well as self-interested motivations. Finally, others question the way that societies assess economic policies that affect the welfare and dignity of their constituents. A wide range of philosophical perspectives is offered, drawing from the classic writings of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and the ancient Stoics, to that of current scholars such as Amartya Sen, Elizabeth Anderson, and Christine Korsgaard. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research between ethics and economics, and is sure to be an important resource for scholars in both fields. This book was published as a combination of the special issues Review of Political Economy and Review of Social Economy.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0631164014

Get Book

On Ethics and Economics by Amartya Sen Pdf

In this elegant critique, Amartya Sen argues that welfare economics can be enriched by paying more explicit attention to ethics, and that modern ethical studies can also benefit from a closer contact with economies. He argues further that even predictive and descriptive economics can be helped by making more room for welfare-economic considerations in the explanation of behaviour.

Author : J. Cobbenhagen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 178254111X

Get Book

Successful Innovation by J. Cobbenhagen Pdf

'. . . well worth reading and absorbing, particularly by teachers of "principles" courses who wish to give their students a more correct perspective on the findings of the economic science of applied welfare economics contained in discussions of cost/benefit analysis, most distributive issues, and evaluations of tax policy.' - Peter Groenewegen, History of Economics Review

Author : Betsy Jane Clary,Wilfred Dolfsma,Deborah M. Figart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134159505

Get Book

Ethics and the Market by Betsy Jane Clary,Wilfred Dolfsma,Deborah M. Figart Pdf

Comprising cutting-edge work on the state of social economics today, this theoretically diverse book includes strong emphasis on the role of ethics, morality, identity, and society in economic theorizing. Much existing economic theory overlooks ethics. Rather than situating the market and values at separate extremes of a continuum, Ethics and the Market contends that the two are necessarily and intimately related. This volume brings together some of the best work in the social economics tradition, with strong contributions and pedagogy, and a cross-national blend of economics, philosophy, and policy. The contributors embed the economic within the social, rather than viewing 'the economy' and 'society' as separable spheres of life activity, and in so doing, three key themes are illuminated, corresponding to the volume's tripartite structure: Morality and Markets Redefining the Boundaries of Economics Social Economics in Transition. Ethics and the Market illuminates the diverse and dynamic theoretical approaches that are employed in social economics, reflecting on their continuously evolving relationship with neoclassical economics. Taking an innovative approach, this integrative book challenges traditional ways of thinking, and will prove vital reading for students and academics in the fields of Economics, Sociology, Gender Studies, and Public Policy.

Author : Alan Lewis,Karl-Erik Wärneryd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134869718

Get Book

Ethics and Economic Affairs by Alan Lewis,Karl-Erik Wärneryd Pdf

There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the ethical dimension of economic affairs. Whilst the interest in business ethics has been long-standing, it has been given renewed emphasis by high profile scandals in the world of business and finance. At the same time many economists, dissatisfied with the discipline's emphasis on self-interest and individualism, and by the asocial nature of much economic theory, have sought to enlarge the scope of economics by looking at ethical questions. In this volume a group of interdisciplinary scholars provide contributions which include evaluations of work in business ethics, empirical studies of such issues as social and ethical investing, the place of ethics in the new economics and perspectives from other disciplines.

Author : Peter Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642774348

Get Book

Ethics in Economics, Business, and Economic Policy by Peter Koslowski Pdf

This book presents an integration of the analysis of symbo- lic, ethical, and cultural meaning into the theory of econo- mic action. It demontrates that the scope of economics is widened by the inclusion of the cultural and ethical determinants of economic action and by bringing the ethical and cultural factors back into economics and management science. The book's contribution to business ethics and economic ethics lies in its distinctly continental European background which is often overlooked in current discussions of economic theory. The papers in this volume point to a mutual interpenetration of economics and ethics in a new synthesis of "ethical economy".

Author : Bernard Hodgson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662044766

Get Book

Economics as Moral Science by Bernard Hodgson Pdf

Economics as Moral Science investigates the problem of the ethical neutrality of "mainstream" economic theory within the context of the methodology of economics as a science. Against the conventional wisdom, the author argues that there are serious moral presuppositions to the theory, but that economics could still count as a scientific or rational form of inquiry. The basic questions addressed - the ethical implications of economics, its status as a scientific mode of theory-construction, and the relation between these factors - are absolutely fundamental ones for an understanding of contemporary economics, the philosophy of the human sciences, and our current market culture. Moreover, the study provides a thorough philosophical analysis of the critical issues at stake from the inside, from the credible perspective of a particular, but foundational economic theory - the neoclassical theory of rational choice.

Author : Charles K. Wilber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847687902

Get Book

Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy by Charles K. Wilber Pdf

Years have passed since the end of the War of the Lance. The people of Ansalon have rebuilt their lives, their houses, their families. The Companions of the Lance, too, have returned to their homes, raising children and putting the days of their heroic deeds behind them. But peace on Krynn comes at a price. The forces of darkness are ever vigilant, searching for ways to erode the balance of power and take control. When subtle changes begin to permeate the fragile peace, new lives are drawn into the web of fate woven around all the races. The time has come to pass the sword ? or the staff ? to the children of the Lance. They are the Second Generation. An all-new audiobook edition of a classic Dragonlance novel. This book of five novellas bridges the gap between the Chronicles and Legends trilogies and Dragons of Summer Flame. While detailing their adventures, The Second Generation also sets up key events and characters in future Dragonlance novels.

Author : P. Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401009560

Get Book

Principles of Ethical Economy by P. Koslowski Pdf

John Maynard Keynes wrote to his grandchildren more than fifty years ago about their economic possibilities, and thus about our own: "I see us free, there fore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue - that avarice is a vice, that the exaction of usury is a misde meanour. . . . We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful" ("Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren," pp. 371-72). In the year 1930 Keynes regarded these prospects as realizable only after a time span ofone hundred years, ofwhich we have now achieved more than half. The pres ent book does not share Keynes's view that the possibility of an integration of ethics and economics is dependent exclusively on the state of economic devel opment, though this integration is certainly made easier by an advantageous total economic situation. The conditions of an economy that is becoming post of ethics, cultural industrial and post-modern are favorable for the unification theory, and economics. Economic development makes a new establishment of economic ethics and a theory ofethical economy necessary. Herdecke and Hanover, October 1987 P. K. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword v Introduction . 0. 1. Ethical Economy and Political Economy . . 0. 1. 1. Ethical Economy as Theory ofthe Ethical Presuppositions of the Economy and Economic Ethics 3 0. 1. 2.

Author : Clarence Edwin Ayres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B3928283

Get Book

The Nature of the Relationship Between Ethics and Economics by Clarence Edwin Ayres Pdf

Author : Johan Graafland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000416619

Get Book

Ethics and Economics by Johan Graafland Pdf

This textbook applies economic ethics to evaluate the free market system and enables students to examine the impact of free markets using the three main ethical approaches: utilitarianism, principle-based ethics and virtue ethics. Ethics and Economics systematically links empirical research to these ethical questions, with a focus on the core topics of happiness, inequality and virtues. Each chapter offers a recommended further reading list. The final chapter provides a practical method for applying the different ethical approaches to morally evaluate an economic policy proposal and an example of the methodology being applied to a real-life policy. This book will give students a clear theoretical and methodological toolkit for analyzing the ethics of market policies, making it a valuable resource for courses on economic ethics and economic philosophy.

Author : M. Lunati
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230373587

Get Book

Ethical Issues in Economics by M. Lunati Pdf

A critical perspective on the foundations of economic theory showing the importance of ethical considerations and focusing in particular on altruism, cooperation and equity. Mainstream neoclassical economics is analysed and challenged from a moral and socio-economic perspective, emphasizing the relationship between economics, ethics and politics. Throughout the book the nature of homo economicus is contrasted with that of homo ethicus. Their different moral principles, behavioural rules and values are compared and the importance of this battle for a good and civilised society is emphasised.