Ethics and Economics

An Introduction to Free Markets, Equality and Happiness
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-02098-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 712 g

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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graafland, Johan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction PART I FREE MARKETS, WELFARE AND HAPPINESS 2 Utilitarianism 3 Three economic perspectives on the "good" market system 4 Free markets, welfare and happiness: Empirical research PART II FREE MARKETS, RIGHTS AND INEQUALITY 5 The ethics of duties and rights 6 The ethics of justice 7 Free markets, rights and inequality: empirical research PART III FREE MARKETS, VIRTUES AND HAPPINESS 8 Virtue ethics and care ethics 9 Adam Smith on markets, virtues and happiness 10 Markets, virtues and happiness: empirical research PART IV CONSOLIDATION AND INTEGRATION 11 Liberalism and communitarianism 12 The morality of free markets: Integration and application

Über Autor(innen)

Johan Graafland (1960) has been full professor of economics, business and ethics at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, since 2000 and is a fellow of the Tilburg Sustainability Center.