Economics and the Virtues
Building a New Moral Foundation
While ethics has been an integral part of economics since the days of Adam Smith (if not Aristotle), many modern economists dismiss ethical concerns in favor of increasing formal mathematical and computational methods. But recent financial crises in the real world have reignited discussions of the importance of ethics to economics, including growing calls for a new approach to incorporating moral philosophy in economic theory, practice, and policy. Ironically, it isthe ethics of virtue advocated by Aristotle and Adam Smith that may lead to the most promising way to developing an economics that emphasizes the virtues, character, and judgment o…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: White, Mark D. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-100509-1
- EAN: 9780191005091
- Produktnummer: 19557101
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'534 KB
- Abbildungen: 4 Figures
Über den Autor
Jennifer A. Baker is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Charleston. She has published over a dozen articles and chapters on ethics, with a particular focus on practical-rationality based accounts of virtue. Her most recent publications are 'Visible Hands: The Justification of the Market and Moral Agency', 'Children's Agency, Interests, and Medical Consent', 'Virtue Ethics and Practical Guidance', and 'Who's Afraid of a Final End?The Omission of Traditional Practical Rationality from Contemporary Virtue Ethics.'Mark D. White is Chair and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where he teaches courses in philosophy, law, and economics. He is the author of four books, including Kantian Ethics and Economics: Autonomy, Dignity, and Character (Stanford University Press) and The Illusion of Well-Being: Economic Policymaking Based on Respect and Responsiveness (Palgrave Macmillan), as well as over 50 journal articles and book chapters. He has alsoedited or coedited a number of books, including The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination (with Chrisoula Andreou) and Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy (both from Oxford University Press).
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