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Title

Economics and ethics? / edited by Peter Groenewegen.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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• Groenewegen, Peter D.
• Workshop on Economics and Ethics (1994 : University of Sydney)

Description

xi, 188 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• Can modern economics adequately embrace ethical issues or does its theoretical apparatus prohibit such a relationship? In December 1994, social scientists from the fields of economics, philosophy, political science and anthropology attended a workshop to discuss the current state of the economics-ethics nexus by way of examining both past and contemporary practice.
• The proceedings of this conference presented a wide variety of attitudes and includes an examination of economics and ethics from an economist and a philosopher's perspective, in order to assess the contemporary implications of the relationship, and in the late nineteenth century against the background of a long utilitarian tradition.
• This is a set of stimulating reflections by practitioners - including Chin Liew Ten, Bob Coats and Geoffrey Brennan - on the tricky associations between economics and ethics.

Subject

• Economics > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Peter Groenewegen -- 2. Ethics and Economics: An Economist's View / Robert Rowthorn -- 3. Ethics and Economics: A Philosopher's View / Chin Liew Ten -- 4. From Divine Corporation to a System of Justice: Adventures in Individual Motivation and Social Outcome, with Hutcheson, Hume and Smith / Jeremy Shearmur -- Comment: Ethics, Commerce and Government: The Scottish School / Louis Haddad -- 5. Utilitarianism, Oxford Idealism and Cambridge Economics / A. W. Coats -- Comment: No Matter of Regret: The Cambridge Critique(s) of Jevons's 'Hedonics' / Michael V. White -- 6. The Economist's Approach to Ethics: A Late Twentieth Century View / Geoffrey Brennan -- Comment: On Ethics and Economic Science / Flora Gill -- 7. O Tempora, O Mores! Economics as the Ethos of Our Times / Yanis Varoufakis -- 8. Morality and the Culture of the Market / Diane Austin-Broos.

ISBN

0415144841 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

96003415

OCLC

• 34192702
• ocm34192702

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Columbia University Libraries