Economics and the Virtues: Building a New Moral Foundation
- ISBN-10
- 019885580X
- ISBN-13
- 9780198855804
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-01-30
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Authors
- Mark D. White, Jennifer A. Baker
Description
A volume by leading economists and philosophers that explores the contributions that virtue ethics can make to economics. Provides historical and modern insights in both economics and philosophy and offers suggestions for incorporating the ethics of virtue into economics to make it more applicable to moral dilemmas in the world outside the models.
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- 2016-01-07
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- 2016
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