Economists enjoy enormous influence over the life chances of the world's inhabitants, yet do not receive, at any point in their training, any exposure to the professional ethical challenges that their work entails. This lack of attention to professional ethics means that even well-meaning...

The global neoliberal project, which entailed inter alia financial liberalization that accelerated financialization of the world economy, was advocated by leading Austrian, Chicago School neoclassical, and New Keynesian economists, despite awareness that the project would induce substantial harm...

Taking a broad view, the paper presents and explores the concept of an “economy harm profile” to assess the harms that arise within an economy. An economy harm profile is given by the nature of the prevalent, averted and covered harms; the distribution of harms; the rationale for harms; the...