The book investigates the many ways that economic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historically and at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historically contingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributors use case studies...

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Max Stackhouse -- Preface -- Introduction: The Market Paradox -- Part: ONE THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS AS THE NEW WORD OF GOD -- One: Tenets of Economic Faith -- Two: A Secular Great Awakening...

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...