Format:
1 online resource (193 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415600255
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9780203829011
Series Statement:
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series
Content:
Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics is a treatise on the fundamental questions of business ethics and addresses significant shortcomings in the field. It is the result of correlating reflections on phenomena, resulting from an intersection of ethics, economics, methodology, and political and social philosophy
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Cover -- Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ethical preliminaries -- 1.1 Preliminaries - what for? -- 1.1.1 'Ethics' and 'morals' - and other rules of grammar -- 1.1.2 Reference-morals and moral dimension -- 1.1.3 Analytic, empirical, and normative propositions -- 1.1.3.1 Theory and practice - a preliminary remark -- 1.1.3.2 Analytic propositions and definitions -- 1.1.3.3 Definitions and explications -- 1.1.3.4 Missing links and their consequences -- 1.1.3.5 Bidirectional impact -- 1.1.4 Sufficient and necessary conditions -- 1.1.5 Negative selection -- 1.1.5.1 Strict and weak Pareto principle -- 1.1.5.2 Pareto inferiority -- 1.1.5.3 Theory preference -- 1.1.6 Methodological individualist ethics -- 1.1.6.1 Methodological subjectivism -- 1.1.7 Actions and omissions -- 1.1.8 Constitutive characteristics of moral action -- 1.1.8.1 Heuristics of definition -- 1.1.8.2 Back to the constitutive characteristics of moral action -- 1.1.9 Actions and causality -- 1.1.9.1 The triad of moral action -- 1.1.10 Schools of morals and business ethics -- 1.1.11 Business ethics and schools of business morals -- 2. Economics -- 2.1 Economic and moral action -- 2.1.1 Constitutive characteristics of economic action -- 2.1.2 Constitutive characteristics of moral economic action -- 2.1.2.1. Voluntariness of moral economic action -- 2.2 Freedom, property, and moral economic action -- 2.2.1 Individual freedom and property -- 2.2.1.1 Individual freedom and the problem of circularity -- 2.2.2 Introduction of 'property' -- 2.2.2.1 Criteria for introducing property -- 2.2.3 Introduction of 'property' à la Locke -- 2.2.3.1 Introduction of 'money' -- 2.2.4 The problem of legitimacy and libertarian anarchism -- 2.2.5 The finders keepers principle
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2.2.5.1 Presumption of liberty - argumentum pro libertate -- 2.2.6 Breaks in the accumulation chain -- 2.2.7 Intellectual property -- 2.2.7.1 A short excursion into the drug industry -- 2.2.7.2 Back to Menger's 3rd criterion -- 2.2.8 The moral economic quality of money -- 2.2.8.1 A little excursion into the financial crisis in 2008 -- 3. Justice -- 3.1 Justice and the origin of norms -- 3.2 Contracts, rights, and obligations -- 3.2.1 Enactments without contracts -- 3.2.2 Norms by conventions -- 3.2.3 Norms by contract -- 3.3 Justice and social justice -- 3.4 The origin of the idea of social justice -- 3.4.1 Social justice and the moral system of the horde -- 3.5 Social justice as misnomer -- 3.5.1 Social justice as prudential practice -- 3.6 Social justice as 'default justice' -- 3.7 Social justice as complementary justice -- 3.8 Social justice limiting formal justice -- 3.8.1 Ne bis in idem - Do not pay twice! -- 3.8.2 Pool goods, toll goods, and positive externalities -- 3.9 Résumé -- 4. Business ethics -- 4.1 Concepts, questions, and topics of business ethics -- 4.1.1 Shareholder value vs. stakeholder value -- 4.1.2 CC, CG and CSR -- 4.1.3 Sustainability and ecological ethics -- 4.1.4 Exploitation and discrimination -- 4.1.5 Organ trade and abortion -- 4.1.6 Insider trading and data protection -- 4.1.7 Bribery and corruption -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Bouillon, Hardy Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9780415600255
Language:
English
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