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Handbook of Teaching Ethics to Economists
A Plurality of Perspectives
9781802207156 Edward Elgar Publishing
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.
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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.
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.
Critical Acclaim
‘Economists see “two roads”: the road taken, and the opportunity cost of the road not taken. In positivist-utilitarian economics, that is, the classrooms of most colleges and universities worldwide, these same “roads,” both heuristic and real, articulate economic decision-making and outcomes without any reference to ethics or ethical conflict. Negru, Duckworth and Meyenburg offer a much-needed corrective, a Handbook of Teaching Ethics to Economists, which will help to correct this sorry state of affairs.’
– Stephen T. Ziliak, Professor of Economics and Social Justice Studies, Roosevelt University, US
‘This important book balances criticisms of mainstream economics and its unrealistic dichotomy of positive and normative economics with alternative ethics perspectives. It can be seen as a response to the global Rethinking Economics student movement with its
demand for real-world economy teaching and pluralist perspectives in the classroom.’
– Irene van Staveren, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
– Stephen T. Ziliak, Professor of Economics and Social Justice Studies, Roosevelt University, US
‘This important book balances criticisms of mainstream economics and its unrealistic dichotomy of positive and normative economics with alternative ethics perspectives. It can be seen as a response to the global Rethinking Economics student movement with its
demand for real-world economy teaching and pluralist perspectives in the classroom.’
– Irene van Staveren, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Contributors
Contributors include: Ferda Dönmez Atbaşi, Dennis Badeen, Peter Boettke, Malcolm Brady, David Colander, John B. Davis, George F. DeMartino, Wilfred Dolfsma, Craig Duckworth, María-Isabel Encinar, Michelle Meixieira Groenewald, Giancarlo Ianulardo, Imko Meyenburg, Jamie Morgan, Félix-Fernando Muñoz, Ioana Negru, Paolo Ramazzotti, Marta Rocchi, Stefano Solari, Irene Sotiropoulou, Aldo Stella, Huei-chun Su, Mark D. White, Jonathan B. Wight
