Economics and ethics?
By: edited by Peter Groenewegen.
Contributors: Groenewegen, Peter D.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses.
Description: Can modern economics adequately embrace ethical issues or does its theoretical apparatus prohibit such a relationship? In December 1994, social scientists from the fields of economics, philosophy, political science and anthropology attended a workshop to discuss the current state of the economics-ethics nexus by way of examining both past and contemporary practice.

The proceedings of this conference presented a wide variety of attitudes and includes an examination of economics and ethics from an economist and a philosopher's perspective, in order to assess the contemporary implications of the relationship, and in the late nineteenth century against the background of a long utilitarian tradition.

This is a set of stimulating reflections by practitioners - including Chin Liew Ten, Bob Coats and Geoffrey Brennan - on the tricky associations between economics and ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.