Ethics in economic thought : selected issues and various perspectives / Joanna Dzionek-Kozłowska, Rafał Matera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dzionek-Kozłowska, Joanna, author.

Matera, Rafał, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics.

Economics--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Krakow : Jagiellonian University Press, 2015.

Summary:

The monograph repeatedly covers the question of the actual purpose of running an economic activity as well as the problem of referring to ethical values by entrepreneurs and the Aristotelian dilemmas differentiating between needs and wants so as to better understand the evolution of societies towards consumerism. On the other hand, we referred also to the meaning of cultural factors, the role of religion or, in general terms, the significance of informal institutions in the development of societies. We tried to identify them in the context of the discussed problems of wealth and poverty of nations, reminding the reader in a way that the non-solved question has been a major issue of economic research for years, put on a kind of pedestal of the problems analysed in economics by the father of the discipline - Adam Smith. In respective chapters we referred to the concept present in modern economic literature of stimulating development and providing equal opportunities for less developed countries, which led to pondering about the role of the country in the economy both in a national and global context.<br>David J. Jackson

Contents:

Preface

Economist as preacher, or technocrat, or dentist, or how the economists advise

Re-reading of Thorstein Veblen's The theory of the leisure class in the third millennium, some remarks on conspicuous leisure and consumption

Alfred Marshall's puzzles (and how to solve them)

Gunnar Myrdal's take on global inequalities

Relationship between economics and ethics in the thought of Mohandas Gandhi, an attempt to understand contemporary India

Selected ethical and developmental issues in the works of Deepak Lal & Alan Beattie

Economics as a positive science, reflections after reading Tomáš Sedláček's Economics of good and evil

Zygmunt Bauman's ethical warnings int he area of economics, the third millennium's perspective

Political corruption and electoral systems seen with economists' lenses.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018).

ISBN:

83-233-9279-X

83-7969-688-3