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Ethics in economics : an introduction to moral frameworks / Jonathan B. Wight.

By: Wight, Jonathan B [author.].
Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2015Description: xvii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780804794534 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Economics -- Moral and ethical aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 174/.4
Contents:
Why ethics matters -- Outcomes -- Duties, rules, and virtues -- Welfare and efficiency -- Pareto efficiency and cost-benefit analysis -- Critiques of welfare as preference satisfaction -- Moral limits to markets -- The science behind Adam Smith's ethics -- Ethics and the financial crisis of 2008 -- Economic justice : process versus outcomes -- Economic justice : equal opportunity -- Ethical pluralism in economics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why ethics matters -- Outcomes -- Duties, rules, and virtues -- Welfare and efficiency -- Pareto efficiency and cost-benefit analysis -- Critiques of welfare as preference satisfaction -- Moral limits to markets -- The science behind Adam Smith's ethics -- Ethics and the financial crisis of 2008 -- Economic justice : process versus outcomes -- Economic justice : equal opportunity -- Ethical pluralism in economics.

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