The economics of ethics and the ethics of economics : values, markets and the state / edited by Geoffrey Brennan, Giuseppe Eusepi.

Makes a rational case for the closer integration of ethics and economics. This book expands upon themes concerned with esteem, self esteem, emotional bonding between agents, expressive concerns, and moral requirements. It explores different dimensions at the frontier between the rational and the mor...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Brennan, Geoffrey, 1944-, Eusepi, Giuseppe, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, ©2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I; 1. Ethics and the extent of the market; 2. Value and values, preferences and price: an economic perspective on ethical questions; 3. An economist's plaidoyer for a secular ethics: the moral foundation and social role of critical rationalism; 4. Conceptual confusions, ethics and economics; PART II; 5. Awards: a view from economics; 6. Assessing collective decision-making processes: the relevance of motivation; 7. Positive constraints on normative political theory; PART III.