The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics provides a thorough survey of the various ways ethics can, does, and should inform economic theory and practice. The first part of the book, Foundations, explores how the most prominent schools of moral philosophy relate to economics; asks how morals...

Introduction (Bruno S. Frey and Christoph A. Schaltegger) -- Christine Benesch recommends “Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion” by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke (Christine Bensch) -- Matthias Benz recommends “The Political Economy of Government...

This collection of essays comprises some of Rudolf Richter’s important contributions to research on New Institutional Economics (NIE). It deals with the central idea, principles, and methodology of New Institutional Economics and explores its relation to sociology and law. Other chapters...

Introduction -- The early contributors to the development of economic thought -- The mercantilists and the physiocrats -- Adam Smith and the Wealth of nations -- The classicists -- The early critics of classical economics -- The later classicists -- The socialists and Karl Marx -- The...