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The economics of sin : rational choice or no choice at all?

Cameron, Samuel - 2002

1. Introduction -- 2. Tools of the trade : rational choice -- 3. Religion -- 4. Greed, lust, sloth and waste -- 5. Envy and jealousy -- 6. Lies and deceit -- 7. Matters of life and death -- 8. Addiction -- 9. Adultery -- 10. Prostitution -- 11. Conclusion.

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Research handbook on accounting and ethics

Brivot, Marion (ed.); Cho, Charles H. (ed.) - 2023

of services provided by accountants today. Providing an overview of contemporary accounting and ethics issues around the … world, the Research Handbook on Accounting and Ethics discusses the ethical considerations involved in each of the major … effectiveness of anti-corruption agencies in Africa, and accounting ethics education in Hong Kong and Macau. It also proposes new …

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Public choice and the challenges of democracy

Casas Pardo, José (contributor); … - 2007

This timely and important volume addresses the serious challenges faced by democracy in contemporary society. With contributions from some of the world's most prestigious scholars of public choice and political science, this comprehensive collection presents a complete overview of the threats...

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Institutional economics and the formation of preferences : the advent of pop music

Dolfsma, Wilfred - 2004

The formation of preferences is an elusive subject that many social scientists, and especially economists, have tended to avoid. In this original new book, Wilfred Dolfsma combines institutional economics with insights from the other social sciences to analyse the way in which preferences are...

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The Elgar companion to social economics

Davis, John Bryan (ed.); Dolfsma, Wilfred (ed.) - 2015 - 2nd ed

economics and ethics as essentially connected, and adds values such as justice, fairness, dignity, well-being, freedom and … heterodox economics. It will also appeal to management scholars and those concerned with business ethics …

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Entrepreneurship as social change

Steyaert, Chris (contributor); Hjorth, Daniel (contributor) - 2006

This book-- the third in the Movements in Entrepreneurship series-- examines entrepreneurship as a societal phenomenon. It provides an in-depth study of the social aspects of entrepreneurship, illustrating how entrepreneurship affects society. The need to move beyond economy to disclose...

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Culture and the labour market

Austen, Siobhan - 2003

Culture and the Labour Market attempts to define the meaning of culture and the nature of its possible consequences on economic processes and outcomes. In particular, the book examines alternative theoretical and empirical approaches to the economic analysis of cultural effects in the labour...

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Handbook of economics and ethics

Staveren, Irene van (contributor); Peil, Jan (contributor) - 2009

The Handbook of Economics and Ethics portrays an understanding of economic methodology in which facts and values … to policy evaluation, this encyclopaedic Handbook is at the intersection of economics and ethics … thought / Albino Barrera -- 8. Code of ethics for economists / Robin L. Bartlett -- 9. Consumerism / Peter N. Stearns -- 10 …

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The Elgar companion to social economics

Davis, John Bryan (contributor); … - 2008

embedded in the larger web of social and ethical relationships. It also regards economics and ethics as essentially connected …

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The Elgar companion to corporate social responsibility and the sustainable development goals

Idowu, Samuel O. (ed.); Zu, Liangrong (ed.) - 2023

"This timely Companion analyses how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can accelerate the achievement of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Global experts from a wide range of disciplines develop a flexible, diverse, and reconstructed form of CSR and illustrate how it can help...

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