Ethics and Economics: An Introduction to Free Markets, Equality and Happiness

ISBN-13: 9781032020983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 270 str.

Johan Graafland

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Johan Graafland (1960) has been full professor of economics, business and ethics at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, since 2000 and is a fellow of the Tilburg Sustainability Center.