"A challenging critique of the prevailing notion that upholding fair competition is one of the foundations of a market economy. Drawing on concepts from economics, philosophy and law, White argues that the pre-eminent status accorded to the regulation of competition should be reconsidered by any...

Introduction / Jennifer A. Baker and Mark D. White -- part 1. Approaches to virtue and economics. Aristotelian virtue ethics and economic rationality / Christian U. Becker -- The Epicurians on happiness, wealth, and the deviant craft of property management / Tim O'Keefe -- Economic good as...

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...

Markets and dignity : the essential link : (with an application to health care) / Mark D. White -- Markets, discovery, and social problems / John Meadowcroft -- Economic freedom and global poverty / James D. Gwartney and Joseph S. Connors -- Don't let the best be the enemy of the good : a stoic...

Economics and ethics are both valuable tools for analyzing the behavior and actions of human beings and institutions. Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, considered them two sides of the same coin, but since economics was formalized and mathematicised in the late 1800s and early 1900s,...

This collection of essays by prominent economists and philosophers showcases the important contributions that markets can make to important topics within social economics, including practical issues such as poverty and disaster relief, as well as more general concerns regarding ethics and well-being