Does Rational Choice Theory (RCT) have something important to contribute to the humanities? Jon Elster and others …

Alasdair MacIntyre argues that the Enlightenment ideology, which includes Adam Smith's moral theory, lacks any sense of … part of Smith's moral framework, which does have touches of an Aristotelian-based virtue ethics that seeks the perfection … of people. From this assertion, the question arises whether a Smithian based moral theory is a sufficient foundation on …

Classical virtue theory has received limited attention in economics. The paper demonstrates its fruitfulness for … interpreted as a theory of moral psychology, and applied to economic theory, with comparisons against other behavioral models in …

Welfare economics—the normative branch of economics—is a consequentialist moral theory. Unlike deontological morality ….This contribution to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics critically examines several methods of incorporating …

ethical considerations and the precepts of moral philosophy affect the theory and application of economics. In its pursuit for …

Drawing on an ordonomic approach to business ethics, this article wants to contribute to an interdisciplinary dialogue …

Mises. It reconstructs his approach against socialism, his works on liberalism, and finally his contribution to moral theory. …