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Ethics in Economics : An Introduction to Moral Frameworks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (294 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804794565
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethics in EconomicsDDC classification:
  • 174/.4
LOC classification:
  • HB72+
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I: Moral Frameworks -- Chapter 1: Why Ethics Matters -- Chapter 2: Outcomes -- Chapter 3: Duties, Rules, and Virtues -- Part II: Evaluating the Economy -- Chapter 4: Welfare and Efficiency -- Chapter 5: Pareto Efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Chapter 6: Critiques of Welfare as Preference Satisfaction -- Part III: Topics in Ethics and Economics -- Chapter 7: Moral Limits to Markets -- Chapter 8: The Science behind Adam Smith's Ethics -- Chapter 9: Ethics and the Financial Crisis of 2008 -- Chapter 10: Economic Justice: Process versus Outcomes -- Chapter 11: Economic Justice: Equal Opportunity -- Chapter 12: Ethical Pluralism in Economics -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Ethics in Economics provides an introduction to the ethical systems that underpin economic debates. Jonathan B. Wight considers how outcomes, duties, and virtue work together in economic life to create wealth by addressing moral hazards and building trust.
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Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I: Moral Frameworks -- Chapter 1: Why Ethics Matters -- Chapter 2: Outcomes -- Chapter 3: Duties, Rules, and Virtues -- Part II: Evaluating the Economy -- Chapter 4: Welfare and Efficiency -- Chapter 5: Pareto Efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Chapter 6: Critiques of Welfare as Preference Satisfaction -- Part III: Topics in Ethics and Economics -- Chapter 7: Moral Limits to Markets -- Chapter 8: The Science behind Adam Smith's Ethics -- Chapter 9: Ethics and the Financial Crisis of 2008 -- Chapter 10: Economic Justice: Process versus Outcomes -- Chapter 11: Economic Justice: Equal Opportunity -- Chapter 12: Ethical Pluralism in Economics -- Notes -- Index.

Ethics in Economics provides an introduction to the ethical systems that underpin economic debates. Jonathan B. Wight considers how outcomes, duties, and virtue work together in economic life to create wealth by addressing moral hazards and building trust.

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