Overview
- Examines the Problem of Descriptive Adequacy in Economic Theory Including the Limits of Simplification of Reality Required by Modeling
- Raises Questions of How Theories of the Economy be to Provide Space for Moral Considerations
- Asks the Important Questions about the Role of Economic Theory
Part of the book series: Virtues and Economics (VIEC, volume 6)
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This book is of interest to researchers and students of the methodology of economics, ethics, philosophers concerned with agency and economists who build economic models that rest in the intention of the agent.
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Keywords
- An Essay on Humble Economics
- from a Theoretical Basis to the Next System
- How (not) to Connect Ethics and Economics
- Identity Theories in Economics
- Normative Distinction in Economic Methodology
- Open Access
- Research Ethics in Economics
- Words and Objects in Economics
- The Complexity of Human Nature
- The Making of Economic Theory
- The Naturalisation of Normative Economics
- research ethics
Table of contents (13 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Laszlo Zsolnai is professor and director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is president of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium and Co-chair of the Future Earth Finance & Economics Knowledge and Action Network in Montreal. Laszlo Zsolnai’s recent books include The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business (2011. Houndmills, UK, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan), Beyond Self: Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Economics (2014. Peter Lang Academic Publishers, Oxford), The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management (2015, Springer), Post-Materialistic Business: Spiritual Value-Orientation in Renewing Management (2015, Palgrave) and Ethical Leadership. Indian and European Spiritual Approaches (2016, Palgrave-Macmillan).
Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price – head of Behavioural Economics Unit at the Polish Economic Institute in Warsaw(Poland). Graduate of Warsaw School of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam (EIPE) and Newcastle University where she received her PhD in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research interests are economic and political philosophy, economic methodology and history of economic thought. Her current work focuses on the problems of preference formation and change, rational choice theory and philosophy of economic agency. She studies how these issues are treated in behavioural economics and – most recently - its practical application in the politics of nudging. She is the economics editor of a peer-reviewed journal Politics & Poetics. Member of the Polish Philosophy of Economics Network.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Words, Objects and Events in Economics
Book Subtitle: The Making of Economic Theory
Editors: Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price
Series Title: Virtues and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52673-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52672-6Published: 04 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52675-7Published: 04 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52673-3Published: 03 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2520-1794
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1808
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 226
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Phenomenology, Research Ethics, Philosophical Methodology