By Prof. Bernard Hodgson (auth.)
ISBN-10: 3642074278
ISBN-13: 9783642074271
ISBN-10: 3662044765
ISBN-13: 9783662044766
Economics as ethical Science investigates the matter of the moral neutrality of "mainstream" fiscal thought in the context of the technique of economics as a technology. opposed to the normal knowledge, the writer argues that there are critical ethical presuppositions to the speculation, yet that economics may possibly nonetheless count number as a systematic or rational type of inquiry. the fundamental questions addressed - the moral implications of economics, its prestige as a systematic mode of theory-construction, and the relation among those components - are completely primary ones for an knowing of latest economics, the philosophy of the human sciences, and our present marketplace tradition. furthermore, the learn presents an intensive philosophical research of the serious matters at stake from the inside, from the credible viewpoint of a specific, yet foundational monetary concept - the neoclassical thought of rational choice.