Wyniki wyszukiwania:

This text presents a devastating critique of the currently fashionable idea of globalisation. Using comprehensive and non-technical language this book looks at the world's cultural and value diversity, and questions whether it is possible to impose a global policy, given these differences. Topics covered include:
* theories of distribution and welfare
* what leads to a good economic outcome?
* Egalitarian theories of welfarism
* global neoliberalism and the free market culture.

For over a century the economics profession has extended its reach to encompass policy formation and institutional design while largely ignoring the ethical challenges that attend the profession's influence over the lives of others. Economists have proven to be disinterested in ethics. Embracing emotivism, they often treat ethics a matter of mere preference. Moreover, economists tend to be hostile to professional economic ethics, which they incorrectly equate with a code of conduct that would be at best ineffectual and at worst disruptive to good economic practice. But good ethical reasoning...

Economics is today among the most influential of all professions. Economists alter the course of economic affairs and deeply affect the lives of current and future generations. Yet, virtually alone among the major professions, economics lacks a body of professional ethics to guide its practitioners. Over the past century the profession consistently has refused to adopt or even explore professional economic ethics. As a consequence, economists are largely unprepared for the ethical challenges they face in their work.

The Economist's Oath challenges the economic orthodoxy. It...

This volume presents a critique of the fashionable idea of globalization, where the kind of global economy that is in the process of forming is seen as the highest possible form of economy, and the neoliberal economic orthodoxy on which it rests. Global Neoliberalism locates the incoherence of neoliberal policy in the neoclassical theories of distribution and welfare on which it depends. These in turn are based on faulty assumptions about human nature and so are unable to answer the question; What leads to a good economic outcome?. Alternative egalitarian theories of welfarism from heterodox...