Ethics, Economics and Social Institutions

• Main Author: Pandit, Vishwanath (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Ethics.; Behavioral economics.; Social policy.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Economics.; Behavioral/Experimental Economics.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Social Policy.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.

The book highlights the ethical aspects and issues that are inherent to economics in the context of today’s prominent social institutions. It reviews a range of problems concerning dominant social institutions, namely markets, government agencies, corporate entities, financial networks, and religiou...

Table of Contents:

• A General Preview
• Economics and Ethics: Evolution and Interaction
• Rationality, Welfare and Ethics
• Alternatives Paradigms in Ethics
• Prosperity and Happiness
• Ethical Norms and Social Institutions
• Ethics under Deeper Views of Life
• Missions for Social Ethics
• Summing Up. .