Add to ORKGThis paper questions whether the contemporary science of economics and its recommendations are built on sound moral foundations as assessed from a virtue-based definition of ethical behaviour. We argue that the model of man underlying economic analyses can correspond to the model of a virtuous person, and that economics, by advocating reasoned choice and careful resource utilization, makes a positive contribution to the moral development of individuals.Economics; Efficiency; Rationality; Tastes; Virtue Ethics
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Virtue ethics interprets human action as pursuing good ends through practices that develop qualities...
The last financial crisis combined with some recent social trends (like growing inequality or enviro...
The debate over whether or not economics is value-free has mistakenly focused on the fact-value dist...
The normative elements underlying efficiency are more complex than generally portrayed, and rely upo...
In contrast to the neo-liberal ideology which dominates much of modern economic discourse, virtue e...
AbstractThis article examines the most prominent ethical theories from the view point of economic ra...
Operating with business ethic we meet, some ethical systems, some of them developed in Antiquity, th...
Some economists consider their discipline a science, and thereby divorced from messy ethical details...
The issue of morality in economics is neither the fairness of income distribution nor the stability ...
This chapter seeks to demonstrate that investigations in positive economics rely on ethical perspect...
Drawing on the knowledge of highly experienced academics, this authoritative Handbook explains how e...
Economic behavior is multifaceted and context-dependent. However, the so-called Homo Oeconomicus mod...
I argue that the typical description and thus also the evaluation of the human activities of acquiri...
This paper aims at showing the need for a sound ethical and anthropological foundation of economics ...
Conventional economics, both in its free enterprise and command versions sought to delink the scienc...
Virtue ethics interprets human action as pursuing good ends through practices that develop qualities...
The last financial crisis combined with some recent social trends (like growing inequality or enviro...
The debate over whether or not economics is value-free has mistakenly focused on the fact-value dist...
The normative elements underlying efficiency are more complex than generally portrayed, and rely upo...