ABSTRACT
There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the ethical dimension of economic affairs. Whilst the interest in business ethics has been long-standing, it has been given renewed emphasis by high profile scandals in the world of business and finance. At the same time many economists, dissatisfied with the discipline's emphasis on self-interest and individualism, and by the asocial nature of much economic theory, have sought to enlarge the scope of economics by looking at ethical questions.
In this volume a group of interdisciplinary scholars provide contributions which include evaluations of work in business ethics, empirical studies of such issues as social and ethical investing, the place of ethics in the new economics and perspectives from other disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|134 pages
Business ethics and management
chapter Chapter 5|10 pages
Moralization as a link between idealism and naturalism in the ethical discourse
chapter Chapter 6|24 pages
Social responsibility in the human firm
part II|82 pages
Case, questionnaire and experimental studies
chapter Chapter 8|12 pages
Social and ethical investing
chapter Chapter 10|16 pages
Ethical regulation of economic transactions
part III|64 pages
A new economics?
chapter Chapter 11|18 pages
Ethics, ideological commitment and social change
chapter Chapter 12|13 pages
Interpersonal relations
chapter Chapter 13|22 pages
Economy and ethics in functionally differentiated societies
chapter Chapter 14|9 pages
Social ownership
part IV|80 pages
Interdisciplinary perspectives