Overview
- Shows how individual economists can become more ethical in their behavior and practice
- Presents quick, easy-to-navigate guides on potential dilemmas, practical uses, and famous philosopher-economists
- Contains useful sections on the pedagogy of teaching ethics to economists and on sample
- Codes from other professions and subfields
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Role of Ethics
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Front Matter
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Ethical Decision-Making
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Front Matter
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Perspectives on Professional Ethics
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Keywords
- Applied and Professional Ethics
- Applied and Professional Ethics in Regulated Professions
- Applied and Professional Ethics in the Social Sciences (
- Aristotle and modern virtue ethics
- Conflicts of Interest
- Ethical Decision-Making
- Ethical Economics
- Ethics and Altruism
- Ethics and Authority
- Ethics and Equity
- Ethics and Poverty
- Ethics and Price Theory
- Ethics and Welfare
- Golden Rule
- Kantian categorical imperative
- Policy Making and Ethics
- Resolution of conflict
- Teaching Ethics to Economists
About this book
This volume explores the professional ethics of addresses the varied ethical needs of the professional economists and public policy professionals. Using terms and methods familiar to the reader, the book goes beyond the typical narrative of economics and morality to walk the professional through the process of ethical decision-making. Designed to be easy to navigate and applicable to everyday practice, this book includes a step-by-step illustrated guide through an ethical decision-making process using a methodology specifically tailored to economists and policy professionals. It describes numerous unique ethical tests and resolution methods which are utilized in a portfolio structure. The book also includes a brief and convenient catalogue of important figures in philosophy and ethics, translated into their policy applications; it concludes with candid advice from experts in different subfields on how ethics impacts their professional lives. This volume provides afoundation and framework for those in economics and public policy to implement a relevant practice of professional ethics both at and in their work.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy
Editors: Elizabeth A.M. Searing, Donald R. Searing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7306-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7305-8Published: 06 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1328-1Published: 31 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7306-5Published: 24 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 297
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic Policy, Ethics, Methodology of the Social Sciences, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Public Administration