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Ethics and Economics
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ABSTRACT
This textbook applies economic ethics to evaluate the free market system and enables students to examine the impact of free markets using the three main ethical approaches: utilitarianism, principle-based ethics and virtue ethics.
Ethics and Economics systematically links empirical research to these ethical questions, with a focus on the core topics of happiness, inequality and virtues. Each chapter offers a recommended further reading list. The final chapter provides a practical method for applying the different ethical approaches to morally evaluate an economic policy proposal and an example of the methodology being applied to a real-life policy.
This book will give students a clear theoretical and methodological toolkit for analyzing the ethics of market policies, making it a valuable resource for courses on economic ethics and economic philosophy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part I|49 pages
Free markets, welfare and happiness
part Part II|62 pages
Free markets, rights and inequality
part Part III|74 pages
Free markets, virtues and happiness
part Part IV|28 pages
Consolidation and integration