The Oxford handbook of professional economic ethics / edited by George DeMartino and Deirdre McCloskey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeMartino, George, editor.

McCloskey, Deirdre N., editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in economics and finance.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics.

Economists--Professional ethics.

Economists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Frequency of update unknown

Other Title:

Professional economic ethics

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014-2016.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

For more than 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 proved to be disinterested in ethics, which, embracing emotivism, they often treat as a matter of preference, and 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 is not reducible to mere tastes, and professional ethics is not reducible to a code. Instead, professional economic ethics refers to a new field of investigation-a tradition of sustained inquiry into the irrepressible ethical entailments of academic and applied economic practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 5, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780199984466

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.