Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series
Auteurs : Bouillon Hardy, Bouillon Hardy
Stakeholder value, corporate social responsibility and sustainability: Are these, and similar, concepts sufficiently clear for fruitful research in business ethics? What is the benchmark to prove their utility? 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. Sparked by the business ethicists? tendency to consider certain areas outside their field and accept others unquestioningly, this book provides answers in the tradition of Austrian Economics and, in particular, of Hayek and Popper.
Through detailed examination and reflection, this book presents the thesis that many themes in business ethics are discussed either unduly intensely, unbalanced or rarely, measured against what business ethics as a science should deliver. It does so by offering an answer to one of the most crucial questions in business ethics, namely that of justice in moral economic actions. Bouillon develops an original definition of morally just economic action in the course of three chapters, and subsequently uses it as yardstick, from which, in chapter four, he reads which of the relevant concepts and topics in business ethics ask for restatement. As a side-product Bouillon discloses logical inconsistencies in prominent political philosophies, and the consequences of these inconsistencies for maldevelopments in business ethics.
Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics illustrates and analyses the business etchics? peculiarities particularly within German literature, providing the reader with a focus rarely found elsewhere. This book should be of interest to economics postgraduates and researchers looking at business ethics, economic theory, and social and political philosophy.
Introduction 1. Ethical Preliminaries 2. Economics 3. Justice 4. Business Ethics 5. Conclusion
Hardy Bouillon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Trier, Germany, and Research Director at the Swiss Management Centre University, Austria.
Date de parution : 06-2014
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 02-2011
13.8x21.6 cm
Thèmes de Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics :
Mots-clés :
Business Ethics; normative; Negative Selection; propositions; Preference Prioritization; ethicists; Normative Propositions; moral; Vice Versa; action; Anthony De Jasay; negative; Weak Pareto Principle; selection; Singular Existential Statements; dimension; Contract Conformity; spontaneous; Pool Goods; orders; Formal Justice; Commutative Justice; Universal Statement; Robinson Crusoes; Default Justice; Implications Compliance; Utility Preferences; Market Dispersion; Finders Keepers; Analytic Propositions; Original Appropriation; Moral Justness; Empirical Propositions; Young Man; Fictitious Contract