ISBN:
9780199984466
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 777 Seiten)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Oxford handbooks online. Economics and finance
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of professional economic ethics
DDC:
174/.4
Keywords:
Wirtschaftsethik
;
Wirtschaftsforschung
;
Wirtschaftstheorie
;
Wirtschaftspolitik
;
Politikberatung
;
Wirtschaftsstudium
;
Economics Moral and ethical aspects
;
Economists Professional ethics
;
Economics ; Moral and ethical aspects
;
Economists ; Professional ethics
;
Wirtschaftsethik
Abstract:
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.
Note:
"This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. The table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the peer-review process and are added to the site."
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766635.001.0001
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