This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating the performance of economies and of economic policies.
This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects indivi...
Development ethics is a growing discipline that deals both academically and practically with the moral assessment of the ends, means, and processes of development. The essays in this collection honor and build on the pioneering work of Denis Goulet (1931-2006), arguably the founding father of development ethics. This book offers a coherent, systematic examination of new directions in the field and features contributions from some of the leading scholars in development ethics and economic development.
The introduction provides a brief history of Goulet's life and work, as well as the...
Development ethics is a growing discipline that deals both academically and practically with the moral assessment of the ends, means, and processes...
This book constructs the model of economic development implicit in the historical experience of the Soviet Union, and the agricultural, industrial, and social strategies followed are shown to fit into a logical and coherent pattern. Those strategies are then evaluated for the positive and negative answers they hold for underdeveloped countries today.
Originally published 1969.
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This book constructs the model of economic development implicit in the historical experience of the Soviet Union, and the agricultural, industrial, an...
By examining the textile, clothing, coal, automobile, and steel industries, Vittoz shows that a variety of interest-group pressures were responsible for many New Deal labor reforms. The author demonstrates that labor and its political allies took much of the initiative for proposing new laws and policies and that reforms were possible because portions of the business community believed that government-enforced labor standards could serve their own competitive interests.
Originally published in 1987.
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By examining the textile, clothing, coal, automobile, and steel industries, Vittoz shows that a variety of interest-group pressures were responsible f...
