Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 777
Cover Image
Utilitarianism – Origins and Evolution
Sorinel, Cosma - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 2, pp. 273-276
The history of ethics is an essencial part of the history of philosphy. Utilitarianism is an abstract ethical …-1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) are considered to be classical utilitarians. Bentham described utilitarianism as the … utilitarianism holds that one must always act so as to produce the greatest aggregate happiness among all sentient beings, within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010632021
Cover Image
Utilitarianism and anti-utilitarianism
Baujard, Antoinette - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013
This paper presents the different utilitarian approaches to ethics. It stresses the influence of utilitarianism in … utilitarianism to preferences utilitarianism and towards post-welfarist approaches is the following. Utility is defi-ned normatively … and positively. This generates some serious tensions. Utilitarianism needs to evolve to go beyond this ethical tension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712462
Cover Image
Utilitarianism and anti-utilitarianism
Baujard, Antoinette - HAL - 2013
This paper presents the different utilitarian approaches to ethics. It stresses the influence of utilitarianism in … utilitarianism to preferences utilitarianism and towards post-welfarist approaches is the following. Utility is defi-ned normatively … and positively. This generates some serious tensions. Utilitarianism needs to evolve to go beyond this ethical tension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821180
Cover Image
Greater Happiness for a Greater Number
Veenhoven, Ruut - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 11 (2010) 5, pp. 605-629
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673903
Cover Image
Shopping orientation and behavioural patterns of Indian consumers: study of a Tier II city
Ghosh, Piyali; Tripathi, Vibhuti; Saini, Smit; Agrawal, … - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 2 (2010) 2, pp. 121-136
Retail industry in India is acknowledged as a sunshine sector, and is driven by factors like strong income growth, changing lifestyles and favourable demographic patterns. Having cemented its presence in metros and Tier I cities, retailers are allured by opportunities in Tier II and III cities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755683
Cover Image
Homo Sapiens in the Captivity of Economics or about Watching of the (Right) Utility
Kovanicová, Dana - In: Český finanční a účetní časopis 2010 (2010) 2, pp. 94-99
Review informs on the book and its individual chapters commented by wider notes. States, that the central idea of the entire work is finding answers to the question, what is the relationship between the economies and good for an individual and between economics and welfare good. It appreciates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194766
Cover Image
On utilitarianism vs virtue ethics as foundations of economic choice theory
Jonsson, Petur O. - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 27 (2011) February, pp. 24-40
utilitarianism vs virtue ethics as foundations of economic choice theory. Findings – Economic choice theory describes consumer choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643853
Cover Image
Affective and rational consumer choice modes: The role of intuition, analytical decision-making, and attitudes to money
Andersson, Patric; Engelberg, Elisabeth - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006
This paper was motivated by a paucity of research addressing how consumer decision-making is related to beliefs about money and different modes of reasoning. To investigate this issue, data were collected from 142 participants, who filled out questionnaires involving scales aimed to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005802497
Cover Image
Tugging on Heartstrings: Shopping Orientation, Mindset, and Consumer Responses to Cause-Related Marketing
Chang, Chun-Tuan; Cheng, Zhao-Hong - In: Journal of Business Ethics 127 (2015) 2, pp. 337-350
Donating money to a charity based on consumer purchase is referred to as cause-related marketing (CRM). In this research, we profile consumer psychographics for skepticism toward advertising in a CRM context. To be specific, this study investigates whether and how psychological antecedents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242097
Cover Image
The Analysis of the Potential Environmental Benefits by Investigating the Hedonistic Price
Gradinaru, Giani; Ignat, Raluca - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics 7(524) (2008) 7(524), pp. 27-36
Consumers get some usefulness from the attributes of heterogeneous products and they adjust their acquisitions as a response to the existing differences. Producers or vendors confront with varying prices depending on the scale of attributes provided. A plan for balancing the prices is developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005154611