Ethics and economics: an introduction to free markets, equality and happiness
- New York Routledge 2022
- vii, 251 p.
Table of Contents 1 Introduction
PART I FREE MARKETS, WELFARE AND HAPPINESS
2 Utilitarianism
3 Three economic perspectives on the "good" market system
4 Free markets, welfare and happiness: Empirical research
PART II FREE MARKETS, RIGHTS AND INEQUALITY
5 The ethics of duties and rights
6 The ethics of justice
7 Free markets, rights and inequality: empirical research
PART III FREE MARKETS, VIRTUES AND HAPPINESS
8 Virtue ethics and care ethics
9 Adam Smith on markets, virtues and happiness
10 Markets, virtues and happiness: empirical research
PART IV CONSOLIDATION AND INTEGRATION
11 Liberalism and communitarianism
12 The morality of free markets: Integration and application
This textbook applies economic ethics to evaluate the free market system and enables students to examine the impact of free markets using the three main ethical approaches: utilitarianism, principle-based ethics and virtue ethics.
Ethics and Economics systematically links empirical research to these ethical questions, with a focus on the core topics of happiness, inequality and virtues. Each chapter offers a recommended further reading list. The final chapter provides a practical method for applying the different ethical approaches to morally evaluate an economic policy proposal and an example of the methodology being applied to a real-life policy.
This book will give students a clear theoretical and methodological toolkit for analyzing the ethics of market policies, making it a valuable resource for courses on economic ethics and economic philosophy.
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