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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808964203321

Titolo

Economics and ethics? / / edited by Peter Groenewegen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-82526-9

0-203-28122-5

1-134-82527-7

1-280-31989-5

0-203-44001-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GroenewegenPeter D

Disciplina

174.4

330

Soggetti

Economics - Moral and ethical aspects

Economics - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the Workshop on Economics and Ethics, held at Sydney University in December, 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; ETHICS AND ECONOMICS: AN ECONOMIST'S VIEW; ETHICS AND ECONOMICS: A PHILOSOPHER'S VIEW; FROM DIVINE CORPORATION TO A SYSTEM OF JUSTICE: ADVENTURES IN INDIVIDUAL MOTIVATION AND SOCIAL OUTCOME, WITH HUTCHESON, HUME AND SMITH; COMMENT: ETHICS, COMMERCE AND GOVERNMENT: THE SCOTTISH SCHOOL; UTILITARIANISM, OXFORD IDEALISM AND CAMBRIDGE ECONOMICS; COMMENT: NO MATTER OF REGRET: THE CAMBRIDGE CRITIQUE(S) OF JEVONS'S 'HEDONICS'; THE ECONOMISTS APPROACH TO ETHICS: A LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY VIEW

COMMENT: ON ETHICS AND ECONOMIC SCIENCEO TEMPORA, O MORES! ECONOMICS AS THE ETHOS OF OUR TIMES; MORALITY AND THE CULTURE OF THE MARKET; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume leading economists and philosophers, including Bob Coats and Geoffrey Brennan, explore the complex relationship between economics and ethics.