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Ethics in economics : an introduction to moral frameworks

Title
Ethics in economics : an introduction to moral frameworks / Jonathan B. Wight.
Author
Wight, Jonathan B.
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015.

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Description
xvii, 275 pages; 24 cm
Subject
Economics > Moral and ethical aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in English.
Contents
Why ethics matters -- Outcomes -- Duties, rules, and virtues -- Welfare and efficiency -- Pareto efficiency and cost-benefit analysis -- Critiques of welfare as preference satisfaction -- Moral limits to markets -- The science behind Adam Smith's ethics -- Ethics and the financial crisis of 2008 -- Economic justice : process versus outcomes -- Economic justice : equal opportunity -- Ethical pluralism in economics.
ISBN
  • 9780804793285 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 080479328X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780804794534 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0804794537 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2014036162
  • 99963674825
OCLC
  • 894745951
  • ocn894745951
  • SCSB-9403133
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries