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Ethics in economic thought : selected issues and various perspectives /
The monograph repeatedly covers the question of the actual purpose of running an economic activity as well as the problem of referring to ethical values by entrepreneurs and the Aristotelian dilemmas differentiating between needs and wants so as to better understand the evolution of societies toward...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Łódź : Kraków :
Łódź University Press ; Jagiellonian University Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Economist as preacher, or technocrat, or dentist, or how the economists advise
- Re-reading of Thorstein Veblen's The theory of the leisure class in the third millennium, some remarks on conspicuous leisure and consumption
- Alfred Marshall's puzzles (and how to solve them)
- Gunnar Myrdal's take on global inequalities
- Relationship between economics and ethics in the thought of Mohandas Gandhi, an attempt to understand contemporary India
- Selected ethical and developmental issues in the works of Deepak Lal & Alan Beattie
- Economics as a positive science, reflections after reading Tomáš Sedláček's Economics of good and evil
- Zygmunt Bauman's ethical warnings int he area of economics, the third millennium's perspective
- Political corruption and electoral systems seen with economists' lenses.