Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy [Hardcover]

Charles Wilber (Author), Elizabeth Anderson (Contributor), Tyler Cowen (Contributor), David A. Crocker (Contributor), Robyn M. Dawes (Contributor), Jon Elster (Contributor), Amitai Etzioni (Contributor), Jerry Evensky (Contributor), Robert H. Frank (Contributor), Thomas Gilovich (Contributor), Virginia Held (Contributor), Roland Hoksbergen (Contributor), Donald C. Hubin (Contributor), Glenn C. Loury (Contributor), Richard P. Nielsen (Contributor), Denis T. Regan (Contributor), StephenJ Shulman (Contributor), W David Solomon (Contributor), James P. Sterba (Contributor), Paul Streeten (Contributor), Richard H. Thaler (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1997 | ISBN-10: 0847687899 | ISBN-13: 978-0847687893

Ethics, argue the contributors to this book, plays an important role in economics. Economists have ethical values that help shape the way they work; economic actors have ethical values that help shape their behavior; and economic institutions and policies impact people differently, so that different ethical evaluations must supplement economic evaluations. In Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy, a host of distinguished philosophers and economists investigate the interaction between ethics and economics, both in economic theory and economic policy. This is a very important book for students and scholars of economics, philosophy, public policy, and those concerned with the way these fields interrelate.

Editorial Reviews

Review

All of the essays are of high intellectual caliber. (Briggs, Vernon M. Jr. Journal Of Economics Issue Xxxiii:1 3/99 )

In these essays, twenty distinguished authors urge economists to import an ethical dimension into their work. . . . an invaluable source book. (Kenneth G. Binmore Economic Learning And Social Evolution )

This collection of 20 essays challenges the conventional interpretation of economic science as value free. (R. S. Hewett Choice )

About the Author

Charles Wilber is professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including Beyond Reaganomics: A Further Inquiry into the Poverty of Economics and Socialist Models of Development.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 424 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (December 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847687899
• ISBN-13: 978-0847687893
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,771,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)