This book presents an integration of the analysis of symbolic, ethical, and cultural meaning into the theory of economic action. It demonstrates that the scope of economics is widened by bringing the ethical and cultural factors back into economics and management science.

Inhalt

Ethics in Economics, Business, and Economic Policy. Introduction.- One Economic Ethics.- 1 Ethical Economy as Synthesis of Economic and Ethical Theory.- Discussion Summary.- 2 Behind the Veil of Time. Rules, Institutions, and Temporal Stability.- Discussion Summary.- Two Business Ethics.- 3 Moral Dilemmas and Organization Design.- Discussion Summary.- 4 The Concept of a Person as the Anthropological Basis of Business and Corporate Ethics.- Discussion Summary.- Three Economic Policy.- 5 Privatization in Czechoslovakia.- Discussion Summary.- 6 Ecology and Intergenerational Equity.- Discussion Summary.- List of Authors and Discussants.- Index of Names.