In the beginning of the second book of his Politeia (Republic) Plato in passage 2.358e-359a-c raises the issue of the administration of justice as a means of motivating people to behave fairly regarding their relationships and when cooperating with each other because, at the end, this is...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Justice -- 3. The divided soul -- 4. The part and the whole -- 5. Education -- 6. Form and philosophy -- 7. The political order -- 8. The social cycle -- 9. The economic system -- 10. A happy end -- References -- Works by Plato -- By other authors -- Index.

Arising from a disenchantment with mainstream economics--a dissatisfaction that is widespread today--A Short History of Ethics and Economics sketches the emergence and decline of the ethical tradition of economics and the crisis of modern economics. In doing so, James Alvey focuses on four of...