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Towards an Economics of Natural Equals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Towards an Economics of Natural Equals

Explores how the Virginia School developed an economics for natural equals in which consent is critical for policy.

The
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

The "Vanity of the Philosopher"

The "Vanity of the Philosopher" continues the themes introduced in Levy's acclaimed book How the Dismal Science Got Its Name. Here, Peart and Levy tackle the issues of racism, eugenics, hierarchy, and egalitarianism in classical economics and take a broad view of classical economics' doctrine of human equality. Responding to perennial accusations from the left and the right that the market economy has created either inequality or too much equality, the authors trace the role of the eugenics movement in pulling economics away from the classical economist's respect for the individual toward a more racist view at the turn of the century. The "Vanity of the Philosopher" reveals the consequences ...

Escape from Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Escape from Democracy

This text interrogates the role of experts in governing and proposes a viable alternative: governing by democratic discussion.

Political Economy as Theodicy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Political Economy as Theodicy

Political Economy as Theodicy: Progress, Suffering and Denial proposes that political economics operates within a theological symbolic order that dictates modern sociopolitical and economic life as a whole. This book revisits the work of key figures in the history of political economy and economic thought – primarily Adam Smith, Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Thomas Malthus, W. Stanley Jevons, Alfred Marshall and John Bates Clark. Theodicy is a constitutive element of an international political economy (IPE) that often disavows moral evil, while it conversely redefines such evil as an actual good within economic life. Beginning with the Enlightenment thinkers and continuing through to the modern neoclasscial economists, this book traces the initial emergence of a natural theological basis for political economic thinking and concludes with a discussion of its application in modern IPE. Relying upon a postcolonial framework, the author seeks to provincialize economics, creating space for alternative modes of being and doing. This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of IPE, political theology, international relations and postcolonial studies.

The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 801

The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics

For over 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 proven to be disinterested in ethics. Embracing emotivism, they often treat ethics a matter of mere preference. Moreover, economists tend to be 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, profess...

Social Inequality, Analytical Egalitarianism, and the March Towards Eugenic Explanations in the Social Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Social Inequality, Analytical Egalitarianism, and the March Towards Eugenic Explanations in the Social Sciences

This book gathers together several essays by historians ofeconomics who express varying reactions to the Peart-Levy thesis. Contains several essays by historians of economics who expressvarying reactions to the thesis expressed in Professors Sandra J.Peart’s and David M. Levy’s book The ‘Vanityof the Philosopher’: From Equality to Hierarchy inPost-classical Economics Explains the importance of 'analytic egalitarianism' ineconomics and the sad consequences of moving away from thisapproach Provides reading that can complement reading lists ineconomics, the mathematics of gambling, and the political economyof the gaming industry

A Research Annual
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

A Research Annual

Includes refereed articles on topics in economic methodology and the history of economics, including Austrian economic methodology and Wesley Mitchell. This collection covers such topics as Adam Smith, John Kenneth Galbraith, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Schumpeter, Janos Kornai, the Chicago School, French econometrics, and financial economics.

Sympathy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 455

Sympathy

This volume offers a historical overview of some of the most significant attempts to come to grips with sympathy in Western thought from Plato to experimental economics. The contributors are leading scholars in philosophy, classics, history, economics, comparative literature, and political science.

The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-10-17
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book explores our ethical responsibilities regarding health in general and disabilities in particular. Disability studies and human enhancement stand out as two emerging areas of research in medical ethics, prompting debates into ethical questions of identity, embodiment, discrimination, and accommodation, as well as questions concerning distributive justice and limitations on people’s medical rights. Edited by two ethicist philosophers, this book combines their mastery of the theoretical debates surrounding disability and human enhancement with attention to real world questions that health workers and patients may face. By including a wide range of high-quality voices and perspectives, the book provides an invaluable resource for scholars who are working on this important and emerging area of leadership and health care ethics.

The Economist's Oath
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

The Economist's Oath

Economics is today among the most influential of all professions. Economists alter the course of economic affairs and deeply affect the lives of current and future generations. Yet, virtually alone among the major professions, economics lacks a body of professional ethics to guide its practitioners. Over the past century the profession consistently has refused to adopt or even explore professional economic ethics. As a consequence, economists are largely unprepared for the ethical challenges they face in their work. The Economist's Oath challenges the economic orthodoxy. It builds the case for professional economic ethics step by step-first by rebutting economists' arguments against and then...