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  • Economics as a Moral Science

    Edited by Peter Rona, Laszlo Zsolnai ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book is reclaiming economics as a moral science. It argues that ethics is a relevant and inseparable aspect of all levels of economic activity, from individual and organizational to societal and global. Taking ethical considerations into account is needed in explaining and predicting the behavior of economic agents as well as in evaluating and designing economic policies and mechanisms.The ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Homo Curator: Towards the Ethics of Consumption

    Edited by Péter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores the under-researched sources of the consumerist culture and the environmental damage it has brought about. The book is an outcome of the symposium on “The Ethics of Consumption” organised and hosted by the Las Casas Institute at the Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford as part of its Economics as a Moral Science Programme. It takes on two contemporary problems: the human ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Economic Objects and the Objects of Economics

    Edited by Peter Róna, László Zsolnai ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines the nature of economic objects that form the subject matter of economics, and studies how they resemble or differ from the objects studied by the natural sciences. It explores the question of whether economic objects created by modern economics sufficiently represent economic reality, and confronts the question whether tools, techniques and the methodology borrowed from the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Art, Spirituality and Economics

    Liber Amicorum for Laszlo Zsolnai

    Edited by Luk Bouckaert, Knut J. Ims, Peter Rona ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume celebrates the work of Laszlo Zsolnai, a leading researcher and scholar in the field of the ethical and spiritual aspects of economic life, who has made significant contributions to the connection between ethics, spirituality, aesthetics and economic theory. The book offers a selection of essays concerned with the ethical, spiritual and aesthetic context within which economics as a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Words, Objects and Events in Economics

    The Making of Economic Theory

    Edited by Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume ... Read more

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  • Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics

    Edited by Peter Róna, László Zsolnai ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal and agency relationships. One of its important and possibly original conclusions is that causal and agency relationships do not encompass all of the dependent relationships ... Read more

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    Key Concepts in Philosophy, Science and Culture

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