Economics and Ethics: An Introduction
โ Scribed by Amitava Krishna Dutt, Charles K. Wilber (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 274
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-16
Economics Without Ethics?....Pages 17-34
Approaches to Ethics and Justice....Pages 35-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Individuals, Norms, and Ethical Values....Pages 59-78
Social Interactions and Ethical Values....Pages 79-94
Markets and Ethical Values....Pages 95-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
The Morality of Markets and Government Intervention....Pages 117-140
Individual Preferences, Efficiency, and Cost-Benefit Analysis....Pages 141-157
Production, Income, and Economic Growth....Pages 158-174
Fairness, Distribution, and Equality....Pages 175-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Ethics and Applied Economics....Pages 205-229
Conclusion....Pages 230-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-269
โฆ Subjects
Microeconomics; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Economic Systems; Business Ethics
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