This volume brings together leading figures in economics, professional ethics, and other relevant fields to explore questions related to the nature of ethical economic practice and the adoption and content of professional economic ethics. It explores current thinking that has emerged in these areas while widening substantially the terrain of inquiry into economic ethics. There has never been a volume that poses so directly and intensively the question of the need for and content of professional ethics for economics. The ...
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This volume brings together leading figures in economics, professional ethics, and other relevant fields to explore questions related to the nature of ethical economic practice and the adoption and content of professional economic ethics. It explores current thinking that has emerged in these areas while widening substantially the terrain of inquiry into economic ethics. There has never been a volume that poses so directly and intensively the question of the need for and content of professional ethics for economics. The Handbook incorporates the work of a wide array of scholars-including economists from various theoretical traditions; economists from academia; economists from other fields where practicing economists have a large social impact; and professional ethicists from fields that have addressed the nature of "professionalism" and its implications for ethical practice.
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