The Ethical Foundations of Economics
The Ethical Foundations of Economics

Author: John J. Piderit, SJ

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 1993-03-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781589018303

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Piderit explores the failures of mainstream economics and proposes an alternative grounded in natural law. His assessment is grounded in the Christian higher law tradition which assumes that objective standards known to human reason should govern society and individuals. This book demonstrates both the reasonableness of a distinguished ethical tradition and its capacity to address a wide range of ethical issues, economic as well as personal and social. Piderit emphasizes that natural law theory underlies the U.S. Constitution and informs Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish worship today.

Development as Freedom
Development as Freedom

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2011-05-25

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 030787429X

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By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.

Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics
Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics

Author: Jonathan B. Wight

Publisher: Council for Economic Educat

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781561836482

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Contains 10 lessons that reintroduce an ethical dimension to economics. Students will learn about the important role ethics and character play in a market economy and how, in turn, markets influence ethical behavior.

Economic Freedom and Interventionism
Economic Freedom and Interventionism

Author: Ludwig Von Mises

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780865976733

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Economic Freedom and Interventionism is both a primer of the fundamental thought of Ludwig von Mises and an anthology of the writings of perhaps the best-known exponent of what is now known as the Austrian School of economics. This volume contains forty-seven articles edited by Mises scholar Bettina Bien Greaves. Among them are Mises's expositions of the role of government, his discussion of inequality of wealth, inflation, socialism, welfare, and economic education, as well as his exploration of the "deeper" significance of economics as it affects seemingly noneconomic relations between human beings. These papers are valuable reading for students of economic freedom and the science of human action. Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of economics throughout most of the twentieth century. Bettina Bien Greaves is a former resident scholar and trustee of the Foundation for Economic Education and was a senior staff member at FEE from 1951 to 1999.

Ethics and Uncertainty
Ethics and Uncertainty

Author: William B. Greer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781781959312

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This study explores how two economists, who both placed "uncertainty" at the heart of their economic theories, came to drastically different and opposing policy recommendations. The volume illustrates the important lesson to be learned from Keynes and Knight.