Economics and the Virtues: Building a New Moral Foundation

by Mark D. White

Book Overview

While ethics has been an integral part of economics since the days of Adam Smith (if not Aristotle), many modern economists dismiss ethical concerns in favor of increasing formal mathematical and computational methods. But recent financial crises in the real world have reignited discussions of the importance of ethics to economics, including growing calls for a new approach to incorporating moral philosophy in economic theory, practice, and policy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019885580X
• ISBN13: 9780198855804
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"