This distinguished book provides a critical assessment of the relationship between economic theory, scientific … objectivity and ethics. The main purpose of economic science is to analyse and 'explain' the economic process but not necessarily …

This book makes a rational and eloquent case for the closer integration of ethics and economics. It expands upon themes …Introduction: Ethics vs Economics: In Praise of the 'Disciplined' Life? / Geoffrey Brennan and Giuseppe Eusepi -- 1 …. Ethics and the Extent of the Market / James M. Buchanan -- 2. Value and Values, Preferences and Price: An Economic …

1. Ethics and economics -- 2. Some fundamentals -- 3. Origins of ethics -- 4. The case for indirect utilitarianism -- 5 …

normative virtue ethics theory, and seeks a deeper understanding on how the concept of prudence and the distinct forms of …: towards the ethics of the inter-processual self / Kleio Akrivou and José Víctor Orón -- 12. Prudence as part of a worldview …: historical and conceptual dimensions / Germán R. Scalzo and Helen Alford -- 13. Non-Western virtue ethics, commerce and the …

, corruption and the growth of -- government 40 -- 6. The indeterminacy of social welfare theory 59 -- 7. The contractarian …-based, procedurally detached theory of the state has contributed to the growth of government. As part of the Kantian … grounded in consequentialist social welfare theory (SWT), the economist's theory of the state must be rejected. Ad hoc …

differing views regarding the role of economic theory as applied to the real world. William Greer reveals that the intellectual … role in ensuring the smooth operation of a system of otherwise free markets. Ethics and Uncertainty explores how two … policy recommendations. The volume illustrates that the important lesson to learn from both Knight and Keynes is that ethics …

The Handbook of Economics and Ethics portrays an understanding of economic methodology in which facts and values …, though distinct, are closely interconnected in a variety of ways. From theory building to data collection, and from modelling … to policy evaluation, this encyclopaedic Handbook is at the intersection of economics and ethics …

, historical and social character of knowledge / David Rooney and Ursula Schneider -- Wisdom, ethics and the postmodern …

. It provides an international, in-depth overview of the present state of knowledge and theory which will be indispensable …