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Ethics in economics : an introduction to moral frameworks / Jonathan B. Wight.

By: Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015Description: xvii, 275 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780804793285 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780804794534 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174/.4 23
LOC classification:
  • HB72 .W537 2015
Contents:
Why ethics matters -- Outcomes -- Duties, rules, and virtues -- Welfare and efficiency -- Pareto efficiency and cost-benefit analysis -- Critiques of welfare as preference satisfaction -- Moral limits to markets -- The science behind Adam Smith's ethics -- Ethics and the financial crisis of 2008 -- Economic justice : process versus outcomes -- Economic justice : equal opportunity -- Ethical pluralism in economics.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HB72 .W537 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001392496

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why ethics matters -- Outcomes -- Duties, rules, and virtues -- Welfare and efficiency -- Pareto efficiency and cost-benefit analysis -- Critiques of welfare as preference satisfaction -- Moral limits to markets -- The science behind Adam Smith's ethics -- Ethics and the financial crisis of 2008 -- Economic justice : process versus outcomes -- Economic justice : equal opportunity -- Ethical pluralism in economics.

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