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Book Series: Economics as a Moral Science
Economics as a Moral Science, 2017
- Covers ethical issues of economics from individual and organizational to societal and global level
- Deals with both theoretical issues as well as practical ones related to business and globalization
- Brings together a group of top scholars from Cambridge, Oxford, Leuven and elsewhere on the much debated issue of the ethical content of economics
Papers included in the volume
- Why Economics Is a Moral Science, Peter Rona
- Issues and Themes in Moral Economics, Laszlo Zsolnai
- Economics as if Ethics Mattered, Stefano Zamagni
- Teleological Reasoning in Economics, Luk Bouckaert
- Economic Rationality Versus Human Reason, Laszlo Zsolnai
- Rediscovering a Personalist Economy, Hendrik Opdebeeck
- Happiness and Human Flourishing, Knut J. Ims
- Understanding Financial Crises: The Contribution of the Philosophy of Money, Antoon Vandevelde
- Economics and Vulnerability: Relationships, Incentives, Meritocracy, Luigino Bruni
- Ethics, Economics and the Corporation, Peter Rona
- Are Business Ethics Relevant?, David W. Miller, Michael J. Thate
- Economy of Mutuality, Kevin T. Jackson
- Economic Wisdom for Managerial Decision-Making, Mike Thompson
- Catholic Social Thought and Amartya Sen on Justice, Johan Verstraeten
- The Theological Virtue of Charity in the Economy: Reflections on “Caritas in veritate”, Helen Alford
- Ethics of Development in the Age of Globalization, Zsolt Boda
- Transdisciplinarity Governance and the Common Good, François Lépineux, Jean-Jacques Rosé
- Agenda for Future Research and Action, Peter Rona, Laszlo Zsolnai
Art, Spirituality and Economics, 2018
- Celebrates Laszlo Zsolnai’s significant contributions to the connection between ethics, spirituality, aesthetics and economic theory
- Includes essays concerned with the ethical, spiritual and aesthetic context
- Presents the economic activities of human beings as a part of the human desire for the Aristotelian good life
Papers included in the volume:
- Laszlo Zsolnai, Friend and Moral Scientist, Luk Bouckaert, Knut J. Ims, Peter Rona
- The Essential, the Beautiful and the Economic: The Brotzeit by Eduard Grützner and Zsolnai’s Philosophy, Carlos Hoevel
- The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci and the Links to Food, Conviviality, Sharing, and Spirituality, Antonio Tencati
- A Dog. Just a Dog, Josep M. Lozano
- The Light of the World, Katalin Illes
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser – The Five Skins of the Ecological Man, Ove Jakobsen, Vivi M. L. Storsletten
- Antarctica – Nature’s Awesome Artwork, Eleanor O’Higgins
- Az Öreg Halász (The Old Fisherman): An Essay for Zsolnai László, Mike Thompson
- From Ethics to Spirituality: Laszlo Zsolnai on Human Motivations, Zsolt Boda
- Angels from the Future. The Voice of Coming Generations, Luk Bouckaert, Rita Ghesquiere
- The Aesthetics of Energy Resilience, Paul Shrivastava
- On the Experience of Beauty in Nature, in Mathematics and Science, and in Spirituality, Peter Pruzan
- Management and Liberal Arts: A Transformational Odyssey with Rabindranath Tagore, Sanjoy Mukherjee
- The Capitalistic Religion: Old Questions, New Insights, Luigino Bruni
- Nature, Economics, and Scream, Knut J. Ims
- The Idea of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Responses of Economic Theory, Stefano Zamagni
- What Can Sense Making Economies Learn from the GNH of Bhutan?, Hendrik Opdebeeck
- Innovation in the Intervention into Nature by Legal Means, Dániel Deák
Economic Objects and the Objects of Economics, 2018
- Demonstrates that the ontology of mainstream economics is rather simplistic and hence misleading
- Argues for a richer, more realistic ontology for economics which may lead to better economic practices and policies serving human flourishing in sustainable ways
- Brings together leading economists and other social scientists to analyse and critically evaluate the ontological issues in economics
Papers included in the volume:
- Ontology and Economics, Peter Róna
- Objects of Nature and Objects of Thought, Peter Róna
- Positioning and the Nature of Social Objects, Stephen Pratten
- Central Fallacies of Modern Economics, Tony Lawson
- Social Scientific Naturalism Revisited, Daniel M. Hausman
- Is Economics a Moral Science?, David Colander
- New Theoretical City or Dispersed Tribes? An Exploration Journey through Contemporary Heterodox Economics and Methodology, Carlos Hoevel
- Rational Choice Theory and Backward-Looking Motives, Roger Teichmann
- Time-Value in Economics, Kevin T. Jackson
- The Crucial Role of Reactivity in Economic Science, Bruno S. Frey
- Economic Actors and the Ultimate Goal of the Economy, László Zsolnai
- How Does the Methodology of Neoclassical Economics Eliminate the Question of Fairness?, Zoltán Pogátsa
- Economics Is a Moral Science: A Value Based Approach, Arjo Klamer
- Postscript on Ontology and Economics, Peter Róna
The Economy of Salvation: Ethical and Anthropological Foundations of Market Relations in the First Two Books of the Bible, 2019
- First book concerned with a detailed examination of faith-based economic and social relations in the first two Books of the Bible
- Examines the Biblical foundations for a conception of social relations and sets it against secular notions
- Offers a reading of some issues relevant for to-day economic and social life
Papers included in the volume:
- Saving Glances in Times of Exile
- Counterparts – From the Very Beginning
- The Way Home: Inhabiting the Realm of the Human
- We Are All Abel’s Heirs
- And Noah Rebuilt the Rainbow
- Heaven Is Not Above Babel
- Towards the Land of the Children
- Hagar and Her Many Sisters
- Faithfulness Throughout the Unexpected
- The Promise Has No Owners
- The Word that’s Irreplaceable
- The Gate of Heaven Is a Voice
- The Way: To State and Cultivate the Alliance
- Forgiving Is a Blessing Struggle
- Why the World Doesn’t End
- Full of Days but not Fulfilled Any More
- The Gift of the Dreamy Brother
- The Word that Upturns the World
- Without Price or Clamour
- At the End of the Night – and After
- Love Does Not Give in to Power
- Enriching Cries
- Thorn Bushes and Liberations
- Where Real Freedom Begins
- Loyalty Makes Even the Sky Open
- The Plagues of Our Invisible Empires
- The Greatest Liberation
- Gratuitousness Speaks
- Salvation Is Dance and Eyes
- The Law of Daily Bread
- The Different Words of Equals
- Words of Heaven and Earth
- The Only True Image
- The Dowry of the Earth Is Pure Gift
- The Treasure of the Seventh Day
- The Desire to Entrap God
- The Weight of Common Words
- The Back and the Face of God
- The Veil that Reveals the False Ones
- Work Is Already the Promised Land
- No Liberator Is Crowned King
Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics, 2020
Open Access publication
- Provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects
- Examines theories historically offered with respect to social causation and agency and proposes and defends some alternatives
- Stipulates the fundamental differences in causality in nature as compared to social life with particular regard to economics
Papers included in the volume:
- Free Will & Empirical Arguments for Epiphenomenalism, Nadine Elzein
- Causality, Agency and Change, Stephen Pratten
- How Economics Becomes Ideology: The Uses and Abuses of Rational Choice Theory, Jason Blakely
- Economics, Agency, and Causal Explanation, William Child
- Causation and Agency, Peter Róna
- Why Aquinas Would Agree That Human Economic Behaviour Is Largely Predictable, Richard Conrad, Peter Hunter
- Agency, Time and Morality: An Argument from Social and Economic Anthropology, Paul Clough
- The Switch from Agency to Causation in Marx, Scott Meikle
- The Morphogenetic Approach; Critical Realism’s Explanatory Framework Approach, Margaret Scotford Archer
- ‘God Created Man ???????????’: Grotius’s Theological Anthropology and Modern Contract Doctrine, Jonathan Price
Words, Objects and Events in Economics, 2021
- Examines the Problem of Descriptive Adequacy in Economic Theory Including the Limits of Simplification of Reality Required by Modeling
- Raises Questions of How Theories of the Economy be to Provide Space for Moral Considerations
- Asks the Important Questions about the Role of Economic Theory
Papers included in the volume:
- Made with Words, Peter Róna
- An Essay on Humble Economics, Lukasz Hardt
- What Is Economics for?, Brendan Hogan
- Should Economics Make a Pragmatic Turn? John Dewey, Karl Polanyi, and Critique of Economic Naturalism, Maciej Kassner
- Moral Economics – A Theoretical Basis for Building the Next Economic System, Zsófia Hajnal
- How (Not) to Connect Ethics and Economics: Epistemological and Metaethical Problems for the Perfectly Competitive Market, Caspar Willem Safarlou
- Research Ethics in Economics: What If Economists and Their Subjects Are Not Rational?, Altug Yalcintas, Eylül Seren Kösel
- Economic Choice Revisited: Lessons from Pre-modern Thinkers, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price
- Between Individual and Collective Rationality, Anna Horodecka, Liudmyla Vozna
- Naturalisation of Normative Economics, Marcin Gorazda
- Beyond Mere Utility-Maximisation. Towards an Axiologically Enriched Account of Well-being, Tomasz Kwarci?ski, Wojciech Za?uski
- Identity Theories in Economics: A Phenomenological Approach, Ivana Anton Mlinar, Ricardo F. Crespo
- Temporal Structures of Justification in the Economic Analysis of Law: Legal Philosophy and Free Will, Kevin Jackson