Principles of Ethical Economy
John Maynard Keynes wrote to his grandchildren more than fifty years ago about their economic possibilities, and thus about our own: "I see us free, there fore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue - that avarice is a vice, that the exact...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2001, 2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2001 |
| Series: | Issues in Business Ethics
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 0.1. Ethical Economy and Political Economy
- 0.2. Why the Interest in Economic Ethics Today?
- 0.3. Overview of the Structure of the Book
- 0.4. Missing Mediation of Economics and Ethics in Modernity - Ethical Economy as Post-Modern Economics
- 1. Economics, Ethics, and Religion: Positive Theory of the Coordination of Self-Interested Actions
- 1.1. Internalization of Side Effects and Inclusion of Persons Affected as Criteria of Social Coordination
- 1.2. Private Vices - Public Benefits: The Good as Side Effect
- 1.3. Economic Failure
- 1.4. Ethics as Corrective for Economic Failure
- 1.5. Religion as Corrective for Ethical Failure
- 1.6. Self-Interest, Corporate Ethics, and Employee Motivation
- 2. Economics and Ethics I: Formal Ethics
- 2.1. Ethics and Economics: Global and Local Maximization
- 2.2. Unifying Universalization and Exception: Ethics and Religion
- 2.3. Economic, Ethical, and Religious Rationality: Extending the Limits of the Self
- Index of Subjects
- 2.4. Rationality and Coordination
- 2.5. Ethics as Fonn of Social Coordination
- 2.6. Ethics and Religion as Ways of Increasing Economic Rationality and Coordination
- 2.7. Fonnality and Materiality
- 3. Economics and Ethics II: Substantive Ethics
- 3.1. Ethical and Economic Theories of Goods
- 3.2. Experiencing Values and Understanding Cultural Meaning
- 3.3. Side Effects between Experiences and Value Convictions, “Is” and “Ought”
- 3.4. Substantive Value-Qualities and Degrees of the Publicness of Goods
- 3.5. Ethics as Theory of Virtues
- 3.6. The Unity of Ethics as the Theory of Duty, of Virtue, and of the Good
- 3.7. Everything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Well, or The Good as Perfection
- 4. Economics and Culture
- 4.1. Cultural Economics and the Cultural Philosophy of the Economy
- 4.2. The Culture of Production.-4.3. The Culture of Consumption
- 4.4. Technological Progress and Transformations in the Meaning of Work in Society
- 4.5. Art and the Economy
- 5. Economics, Ethics, and Decision Theory: The Problem of Controlling Side Effects
- 5.1. The Law of Intended Side Effects in the Firm
- 5.2. Side Effects as Decision Problem
- 6. Economics and Ontology
- 6.1. Intentional or Natural-Scientific Ontology of the Economy?
- 6.2. The Inconceivability of an Objective General Equilibrium and Universal Mechanism
- 6.3. The Market Economy as Teleological Mechanism
- 6.4. General Equilibrium as Transcendental Ideal
- 6.5. Poietic Imagination of New Possibilities in the Market Process
- 6.6. The Market as Social Discourse and Process of Entelechial Coordination
- 6.7. Not Value Subjectivism, but Subjective Value-Realization
- 6.8. Ethical Economy or Subjective Economics as General Theory of Human Action?
- 7. Economic Ethics in the Market Economy
- 7.1. Does the “Mechanism of Competition” Make Ethics Superfluous?
- 7.2. Morality and Advantage: The Costs of Economic Ethics
- 7.3. Morality at the Margin
- 7.4. Proper Conduct and Appropriateness to the Nature of the Subject Matter in Question
- 8. Commutative Justice
- 8.1. Commutative Justice as Appropriateness to the Nature of the Matter of Exchange: The Equivalence Principle
- 8.2. How Do We Determine What Each Person is Entitled to in Exchange?
- 8.3. What Is the Basis of the Obligation to Give Each Person What Is His or Hers in Exchange?
- 9. Just Price Theory
- 9.1. Preliminary Historical Remark: The Significance of Early-Modem, Probabilistic Just Price Theory
- 9.2. Natural Law and Forces of Nature in the Legitimation of the Price System
- 9.3. What Distinguishes the Price System from Other Forms of Price Determination?
- 9.4.Formal and Non-Formal or Substantive Conditions of Price Justice
- 9.5. International Price Justice
- 9.6. Justice as Satisfying a Criterion or as a Synopsis of Several Criteria?
- 9.7. Justice in Interaction with Nature
- Conclusion: Morality and Efficiency
- Index of Persons