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Words, Objects and Events in Economics

The Making of Economic Theory

Editors:

  1. Peter Róna

    1. Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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  2. László Zsolnai

    1. Business Ethics Center, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

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  3. Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price

    1. Polish Economic Institute, Warsaw, Poland

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  • 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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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Made with Words

    • Peter Róna
    Pages 1-12Open Access

  3. An Essay on Humble Economics

    • Łukasz Hardt
    Pages 13-32Open Access

  4. What Is Economics for?

    • Brendan Hogan
    Pages 33-44Open Access

  8. Research Ethics in Economics: What If Economists and Their Subjects Are Not Rational?

    • Altug Yalcintas, Eylül Seren Kösel
    Pages 103-115Open Access

  9. Economic Choice Revisited: Lessons from Pre-modern Thinkers

    • Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price
    Pages 117-137Open Access

  10. Between Individual and Collective Rationality

    • Anna Horodecka, Liudmyla Vozna
    Pages 139-158Open Access

  11. Naturalisation of Normative Economics

    • Marcin Gorazda
    Pages 159-180Open Access

  12. Beyond Mere Utility-Maximisation. Towards an Axiologically Enriched Account of Well-being

    • Tomasz Kwarciński, Wojciech Załuski
    Pages 181-191Open Access

  13. Identity Theories in Economics: A Phenomenological Approach

    • Ivana Anton Mlinar, Ricardo F. Crespo
    Pages 193-211Open Access

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 223-226
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About this book

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 of the Virtues in Economics series and represent further contributions to the themes set out in that volume: (i) examining the philosophical and methodological fallacies of this turn in modern economic theory that the removal of the moral motivation of economic agents from modern economic theory has entailed; and (ii) proposing a return descriptive economics as the  means with which the moral content of economic life could be restored in economic theory.

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
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Peter Róna

  • Business Ethics Center, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

    László Zsolnai

  • Polish Economic Institute, Warsaw, Poland

    Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price

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About the editors

Peter Róna is Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, where he teaches courses in economics and the philosophical foundations of the social sciences. He obtained his B.A. degree in economic history (cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from Oxford University (First Class) in 1964. He was an associate of the Washington, D.C, law firm, Arnold & Porter and counsel to the US Department of Commerce before becoming the personal assistant of Lord Richardson, Governor of the Bank of England. He joined the Schroder Group in 1969 as the General Counsel of its operations in the United Sates, and became the President and Chief Executive of the IBJ Schroder Bank & Trust co. in 1985. In 2003 he joined the faculty of Eötvös Lóránd University where he taught public international law and in 2006 he was made an Honorary Professor there. His published articles include a study of the Euro and an examination of the philosophical foundations of economics.

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.
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