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The Social Economist Hankers after Values: A Collection of Essays
Conway O'Brien, John - In: International Journal of Social Economics 19 (1992) 3/4/5, pp. 2-259
is imperative to distinguish good from evil and to act accordingly: existentialism, situation ethics and evolutionary … ethics savour of nihilism; 11. Ethical Principles: The Economist′s Quandary, which is the difficulty of balancing the claims …
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Looking into the Seeds of Time: The Price of Modern Development, second edition
Duhs, L.A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 27 (2000) 11, pp. 1132-1141
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Development ethics: a research agenda
Clark, David A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 29 (2002) 11, pp. 830-848
Development ethics is a new and rapidly expanding discipline within development studies and social science. The … cultivation of development ethics has the potential to produce a coherent account of human well‐being for guiding development …
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Moral Leadership and Practical Wisdom
Jeannot, Thomas M. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 16 (1989) 6, pp. 14-38
Book VI of Aristotle′s Nicomachean Ethics is commented on, aimed at showing its relevance to some themes in … contemporary moral philosophy. It is argued that the classical approach to morality (Aristotle) and the Enlightened approach (Kant … obedience to rules. While rules have their place, the subject matter of ethics cannot be determined by a quasi …
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Syllogistic Deductionism in Islamic Social Choice Theory
Alam Choudhury, Masudul; Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 17 (1990) 11, pp. 4-20
Pure economic theory ignores ethical values but in Islamic society these are seen as essentially recreated entities of the social order. Islam presents its worldview not as a pluralistic value but as one that calls for the organisation of social and economic order around its well‐defined...
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The Epistemic‐Ontic Circular Causation and Continuity Model of Socio‐scientific Reality The Knowledge Premiss
Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 1, pp. 3-18
Undertakes an epistemological formulation of ethico‐economics. This formulation challenges the neo‐classical and macroeconomic foundations of mainstream economics and then presents the rigorously analytical depths of ethico‐economics. Traces the developments, the praxis of the rational...
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Ayn Rand versus Karl Marx
Machan, Tibor R. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 2/3/4, pp. 54-67
What sets Rand apart from other critics of Marx is that she is a philosophical/ethical/ political individualist who rejects the claim by Marx that “The human essence is the true collectivity of man” and advances, instead, a neo‐Aristotelian theory to the effect that each of us is a human...
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Reason in economics versus ethics
Machan, Tibor R. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 7, pp. 19-37
Examines how the different concepts of rationality have been used (and confused) by economists who have followed modern philosophers′ understanding of human reason. Offers a philosophical discussion as a means to understanding rationality and its incumbent problems of interpretation.
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The hermeneutic and dialectic of community in development
Kidder, Paul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 24 (1997) 11, pp. 1191-1202
theory that emphasize ethics, community development, and the need to involve all participants in the task of defining the …
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Mathematics and academic finance: the role of paradigms
Ardalan, Kavous - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) April, pp. 276-290
Purpose – Any adequate analysis of the nature of mathematics and its role in sciences necessarily requires fundamental understanding of the world views underlying the views expressed with respect to the nature and role of mathematics. Aims to discuss four general views with respect to...
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