Johan Graafland

Ethics and Economics

An Introduction to Free Markets, Equality and Happiness

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9781032020983
• ISBN-10: 1032020989
• Artikelnr.: 62506206

Autorenporträt

Johan Graafland (1960) has been full professor of economics, business and ethics at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, since 2000 and is a fellow of the Tilburg Sustainability Center.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction PART I FREE MARKETS, WELFARE AND HAPPINESS 2 Utilitarianism
3 Three economic perspectives on the "good" market system 4 Free markets,
welfare and happiness: Empirical research PART II FREE MARKETS, RIGHTS AND
INEQUALITY 5 The ethics of duties and rights 6 The ethics of justice 7 Free
markets, rights and inequality: empirical research PART III FREE MARKETS,
VIRTUES AND HAPPINESS 8 Virtue ethics and care ethics 9 Adam Smith on
markets, virtues and happiness 10 Markets, virtues and happiness: empirical
research PART IV CONSOLIDATION AND INTEGRATION 11 Liberalism and
communitarianism 12 The morality of free markets: Integration and
application