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The Good and the Economical

Ethical Choices in Economics and Management

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Peter Koslowski

    1. Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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  2. Yuichi Shionoya

    1. Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan

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Part of the book series: Ethical Economy (SEEP)

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Table of contents (9 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. The Business of Business is Ethical Business Introduction

    1. The Business of Business is Ethical Business Introduction

      • Peter Koslowski
      Pages 1-4

  3. Social and Individual choice: Utilitarianism and Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. A Non-Utilitarian Interpretation of Pigou’s Welfare Economics

      • Yuichi Shionoya
      Pages 7-29

    3. The Impossibility of Utilitarianism

      • Serge-Christophe Kolm
      Pages 30-69

    4. Goodness is Reducible to Betterness: The Evil of Death is the Value of Life

      • John Broome
      Pages 70-86

  5. Managing the Good

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Human Goods in Ethical Business

      • Michael Shanks
      Pages 147-174

    3. Impartiality and Particularity in Business Ethics

      • F. Neil Brady
      Pages 175-197

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 198-202
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About this book

Economics makes the incommensurable commensurable by money prices. On the other hand, there are varieties of goodness like the ethical that seem not to fit into the scale of prices of economics, but cannot be neglected in economizing. Ways of integrating ethics into economics must therefore be found. The aim of this book is the integration of the ethical discourse into the economic discourse about the economical and efficient. It investi§ gates into the structure of goodness. The contribution of this volume to the current debate in economic ethics and business ethics lies in its analysis of the different meanings of the good and in its reflection on the possibilities of implementing ethical goods into the practice of the economist and the manager of the firm. Its essays investigate the role of ethics in social and individual choice. They examine and compare the cultural determinants of the Western and the Japanese economies, their ethical and cultural foundations. They look into the principles of good management. How can the management incorporate human goods and consider the virtues of impartiality and of due consideration to the particular in its business practice? The book develops the idea of an ethical economizing in economics and of an ethical managing in business administration. The business of business is ethical business.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Peter Koslowski

  • Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan

    Yuichi Shionoya

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Good and the Economical

  • Book Subtitle: Ethical Choices in Economics and Management

  • Editors: Peter Koslowski, Yuichi Shionoya

  • Series Title: Ethical Economy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78584-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-78586-3Published: 13 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-78584-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2211-2707

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-2723

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 202

  • Topics: Economics, general, Business and Management, general

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