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Drawing on the knowledge of highly experienced academics, this
authoritative Handbook explains how ethics can inform the teaching
of economics. It includes state-of-the-art moral theory alongside
traditional approaches to emphasise why ethics should be an
important consideration for economic practitioners. The Handbook of
Teaching Ethics to Economists keenly demonstrates how economic
analysis can reflect implicit moral judgements. Chapters include
guidance on course design and lesson content, providing insight
into important topics such as ecological and grassroots economics.
They offer pedagogical advice alongside philosophical analyses,
setting out teaching guidance and significant case-study profiles
on key theories, such as Kantian and Aristotelian ethics.
Importantly, they reflect on the potential of economics to cause
harm and use ethics to mitigate this possibility. This expansive
Handbook will be essential for academics preparing to teach courses
relating to ethics and economics. Due to its detailed explanations
of the societal role of economics, students of economics and
finance will additionally find this Handbook to be incredibly
useful.
Mainstream economics offers a perspective on the gift which is
constructed around exchange, axioms of self-interest, instrumental
rationality and utility-maximisation - concepts that predominate
within conventional forms of economic analysis. Recognising the
gift as an example of social practice underpinned by social
institutions, this book moves beyond this utilitarian approach to
explore perspectives on the gift from social and institutional
economics. Through contributions from an international and
interdisciplinary cast of authors, the chapters explore key
questions such as: what is the relationship between social
institutions, on the one hand, and gift, exchange, reciprocity on
the other? What are the social mechanisms that underpin gift and
gift-giving actions? And finally, what is the relationship between
individuals, societies, gift-giving and cooperation? The answers to
these questions and others serve to highlight the importance of the
analysis of gift in economics and other social sciences. The book
also demonstrates the potential of the analysis of the gift to
contribute to solving current problems for humanity at various
levels of social aggregation. This key text makes a significant
contribution to the literature on the gift which will be of
interest to readers of heterodox economics, social anthropology,
philosophy of economics, sociology and political philosophy.
This edited collection seeks to advance thinking on money and the
monetary nature of the economy, macroeconomic analysis and economic
policy, setting it within the context of current scholarship and
global socioeconomic concerns, and the crisis in the economics
discipline. A key aim is to highlight the central contribution that
Sheila Dow has made to these fields. Bringing together an
impressive panel of contributors, this volume explores topics
including central bank independence, liquidity preferences, money
supply endogeneity, financial regulation, regional finance and
public debt. The essays in this first collection of two will be
thought-provoking reading for advanced students and scholars of
macroeconomics, monetary economics, central banking and heterodox
economics. Contributors have a broad range of professional
experience at universities, central banks, business, development
institutions and policy advisories.
Economists' role in society has always been an uneasy one, and in
recent years the ethicality of the profession and its practitioners
has been questioned more than ever. This collection of essays is
the first to investigate the multifaceted nature of what forms
economists' ethical and economic views. Bringing together work from
international contributors, The Ethical Formation of Economists
explores the ways in which economists are influenced in their
training and career, examining how this can explain their
individual ethical stances as economists. The book suggests that if
we can better understand what is making economists think and act as
they do, considering ethicality in the process, we might all be
better placed to implement changes. The intent is not to exonerate
economists from personal responsibility, but to highlight how
considering the circumstances that have helped shape economists'
views can help to address issues. It is argued that it is important
to understand these influences, as without such insights, the
demonization of economists is too easily adapted as a stance by
society as well as too easily dismissed by economists. This book
will be of great interest to those studying and researching in the
fields of economics, ethics, philosophy and sociology. It also
seeks to bring an ethical debate within and about economics and to
cause change in the practical reasoning of economists.
Economic Methodology, History and Pluralism: Expanding Economic
Thought to Meet Contemporary Challenges pays tribute to Emeritus
Professor Sheila Dow (University of Stirling, Scotland). This
volume focusses on the contributions of Dow to economic
methodology, pluralism and the history of economic thought. These
explorations serve to underpin her ideas and theories on
macroeconomics, banking and money. Bringing together an impressive
panel of contributors, the chapters in this work examine Dow's
writings on structured pluralism and schools of thought, meanings
of open and closed systems, reflections on the relationship between
economics and other sciences (both social and natural), the
methodology of behavioural economics, as well as the political
economy of the Scottish school of thought. The book challenges the
foundations of the mainstream economics paradigm in a novel and
holistic manner, seeking to advance thinking across Dow's favoured
discipline. The essays in this collection provide thought-provoking
reading for advanced students and scholars of economic methodology,
the history of economic thought, heterodox economics and political
economy. The book will also be valued by the economics profession
at large, as it contains important elements and ideas concerning
ethics, methodology and tolerance within economics as a discipline
and as a profession.
Economists' role in society has always been an uneasy one, and in
recent years the ethicality of the profession and its practitioners
has been questioned more than ever. This collection of essays is
the first to investigate the multifaceted nature of what forms
economists' ethical and economic views. Bringing together work from
international contributors, The Ethical Formation of Economists
explores the ways in which economists are influenced in their
training and career, examining how this can explain their
individual ethical stances as economists. The book suggests that if
we can better understand what is making economists think and act as
they do, considering ethicality in the process, we might all be
better placed to implement changes. The intent is not to exonerate
economists from personal responsibility, but to highlight how
considering the circumstances that have helped shape economists'
views can help to address issues. It is argued that it is important
to understand these influences, as without such insights, the
demonization of economists is too easily adapted as a stance by
society as well as too easily dismissed by economists. This book
will be of great interest to those studying and researching in the
fields of economics, ethics, philosophy and sociology. It also
seeks to bring an ethical debate within and about economics and to
cause change in the practical reasoning of economists.
Mainstream economics offers a perspective on the gift which is
constructed around exchange, axioms of self-interest, instrumental
rationality and utility-maximisation - concepts that predominate
within conventional forms of economic analysis. Recognising the
gift as an example of social practice underpinned by social
institutions, this book moves beyond this utilitarian approach to
explore perspectives on the gift from social and institutional
economics. Through contributions from an international and
interdisciplinary cast of authors, the chapters explore key
questions such as: what is the relationship between social
institutions, on the one hand, and gift, exchange, reciprocity on
the other? What are the social mechanisms that underpin gift and
gift-giving actions? And finally, what is the relationship between
individuals, societies, gift-giving and cooperation? The answers to
these questions and others serve to highlight the importance of the
analysis of gift in economics and other social sciences. The book
also demonstrates the potential of the analysis of the gift to
contribute to solving current problems for humanity at various
levels of social aggregation. This key text makes a significant
contribution to the literature on the gift which will be of
interest to readers of heterodox economics, social anthropology,
philosophy of economics, sociology and political philosophy.
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