Ausgehend von den gegenwärtigen Forderungen nach einer "moralischen Ökonomie", beleuchtet Ute Frevert das schwierige Verhältnis von Kapitalismus und Moral und die Frage, ob grundsätzlich und unterschiedslos alle Waren und Beziehungen dem kapitalistischen Marktmodell eingepreist werden...

Is there a moral economy of capitalism? The term "moral economy" was coined in pre-capitalist times and does not refer to economy as we know it today. It was only in the nineteenth century that economy came to mean the production and circulation of goods and services. At the same time, the term...

The Handbook of Economics and Ethics portrays an understanding of economic methodology in which facts and values, though distinct, are closely interconnected in a variety of ways. From theory building to data collection, and from modelling to policy evaluation, this encyclopaedic Handbook is at...