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.

part I|134 pages

Business ethics and management

chapter Chapter 4|64 pages

Management by ethics

A new paradigm and model for corporate ethics

chapter Chapter 6|24 pages

Social responsibility in the human firm

Towards a new theory of the firm's external relationships

part II|82 pages

Case, questionnaire and experimental studies

chapter Chapter 8|12 pages

Social and ethical investing

Beliefs, preferences and the willingness to sacrifice financial return

chapter Chapter 10|16 pages

Ethical regulation of economic transactions

Solidarity frame versus gain-maximization frame 1

part III|64 pages

A new economics?

chapter Chapter 11|18 pages

Ethics, ideological commitment and social change

Institutionalism as an alternative to neoclassical theory 1

chapter Chapter 12|13 pages

Interpersonal relations

A disregarded theme in the debate on ethics and economics

chapter Chapter 13|22 pages

Economy and ethics in functionally differentiated societies

History and present problems

chapter Chapter 14|9 pages

Social ownership

A comparison of the property rights, social choice and economic justice approaches

part IV|80 pages

Interdisciplinary perspectives

chapter Chapter 15|16 pages

Niklas Luhmann's sociology of the economic system

Some moral implications

chapter Chapter 18|19 pages

Economics and the Enlightenment

Then and now

chapter Chapter 19|8 pages

Endpiece