Principles of Ethical Economy

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Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Kluwer Academic Print on Demand
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Summary

The theory of ethical economy analyses the ethical presuppositions of the market economy. It demonstrates that ethics is the pre-coordination in the motives of the economic agents anteceding the coordination of the price system in the market process. Ethical economy develops a positive theory of economic, ethical, and religious coordination of self-interested action described as a super-assurance game of prisoners' dilemma situations. It conceptualises ethics as the corrective of market failure and religion as the corrective of ethics failure. The formal ethics of coordination is then complemented by a theory of the material-substantive ethics of value qualities. One principle of ethical economy is the classical principle of double effect that is used for a theory of managerial and general decision-making. Unintended side-effects (externalities) are a central problem of decisions of large impact. Management decision making must exploit the potential for positive side-effects and control the negative side-effects of managerial decisions. The theory of ethical economy analyses the principles of just price and fair pricing and the relevance of the theory of just price for the pricing behaviour of the modern firm. Principles of Ethical Economy forms a theoretical synthesis of the market theory of modern economics and of the natural right tradition of ethics. It creates new insights into the ethics of the market as well as in the economics presuppositions and consequences of ethical duties, virtues, and goods.

Table of Contents

Foreword v
Introduction 1(1)
Ethical Economy and Political Economy
1(4)
Ethical Economy as Theory of the Ethical Presuppositions of the Economy and Economic Ethics
3(1)
Ethical Economy as Economic Theory of the Ethical or Ethics Oriented toward Economics
3(1)
Ethical Economy as Substantive Theory of Goods and Cultural Economics
4(1)
Why the Interest in Economic Ethics Today?
5(7)
Increasing Side Effects of Economic Activity
6(2)
Rediscovery of the Human Person
8(1)
Normative Penetration of the Economy as Complement of its Differentiation
9(3)
Overview of the Structure of the Book
12(1)
Missing Mediation of Economics and Ethics in Modernity -- Ethical Economy as Post-Modern Economics
13(4)
Economics, Ethics, and Religion: Positive Theory of the Coordination of Self-Interested Actions
17(21)
Internalization of Side Effects and Inclusion of Persons Affected as Criteria of Social Coordination
17(1)
Private Vices - Public Benefits: The Good as Side Effect
18(2)
Economic Failure
20(6)
Ethics as Corrective for Economic Failure
26(5)
Religion as Corrective for Ethical Failure
31(3)
Self-Interest, Corporate Ethics, and Employee Motivation
34(4)
Economics and Ethics I: Formal Ethics
38(43)
Ethics and Economics: Global and Local Maximization
39(7)
Unifying Universalization and Exception: Ethics and Religion
46(2)
Economic, Ethical, and Religious Rationality: Extending the Limits of the Self
48(6)
Love of Self -- Love of God -- Love of Neighbor: Augustine's Understanding of the Transformations and Coordinations of Self-Interest
49(2)
Economization of Ethics and Religion?
51(3)
Rationality and Coordination
54(5)
The A Priori Nature of the Principle of Rationality
54(3)
Formal Rationality and Non-Formal, Substantive Rationality
57(2)
Ethics as Form of Social Coordination
59(13)
Convergence of Ethical Universalization and Market Coordination in the Formal Nature of their Laws
60(4)
Kantian Ethics as the Solution to the Prisoner's Dilemma
64(3)
Formal Ethics as Internal Pre-Coordination of the Economic Coordination of the Price System
67(2)
Deepening Social Coordination by Ethics
69(1)
Ethics as the Reduction of Uncertainty about the Decision Behavior of Other Persons and its Composition into Patterns of Social Interaction
70(2)
Ethics and Religion as Ways of Increasing Economic Rationality and Coordination
72(6)
Ethics as the Ability to Endure the Consequences of One's Own Actions
75(2)
Ethics and Economics in the View of Interpretive Sociology
77(1)
Formality and Materiality
78(3)
Economics and Ethics II: Substantive Ethics
81(31)
Ethical and Economic Theories of Goods
82(5)
The Theory of the Highest Good
83(2)
Scheler's Substantive Ethics of Values
85(2)
Experiencing Values and Understanding Cultural Meaning
87(2)
Side Effects between Experiences and Value Convictions, ``Is'' and ``Ought''
89(2)
Substantive Value-Qualities and Degrees of the Publicness of Goods
91(5)
Ethics as Theory of Virtues
96(8)
The Interchangeability of Means and Ends and the Economics of Sublimation
98(3)
Proper Conduct, or Appropriateness to the Nature of the Matter, and Justice as Virtue
101(3)
The Unity of Ethics as the Theory of Duty, of Virtue, and of the Good...
104(4)
Everything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Well, or The Good as Perfection
108(4)
Economics and Culture
112(11)
Cultural Economics and the Cultural Philosophy of the Economy
112(2)
The Culture of Production
114(1)
The Culture of Consumption
115(2)
Technological Progress and Transformations in the Meaning of Work in Society
117(4)
Art and the Economy
121(2)
Economics, Ethics, and Decision Theory: The Problem of Controlling Side Effects
123(19)
The Law of Intended Side Effects in the Firm
125(3)
Side Effects as Decision Problem
128(14)
Uncertainty about the Consequences of Actions in Ethics, Economics, and Decision Theory
129(2)
Probabilism
131(3)
Criticisms of Probabilistic Decision Calculi
134(3)
The Principle of Double Effect
137(5)
Economics and Ontology
142(27)
Intentional or Natural-Scientific Ontology of the Economy?
143(6)
The Inconceivability of an Objective General Equilibrium and Universal Mechanism
149(2)
The Market Economy as Teleological Mechanism
151(2)
General Equilibrium as Transcendental Ideal
153(4)
Poietic Imagination of New Possibilities in the Market Process
157(2)
The Market as Social Discourse and Process of Entelechial Coordination
159(1)
Not Value Subjectivism, but Subjective Value-Realization
160(4)
Ethical Economy or Subjective Economics as General Theory of Human Action?
164(5)
Economic Ethics in the Market Economy
169(15)
Does the ``Mechanism of Competition'' Make Ethics Superfluous?
169(5)
Morality and Advantage: The Costs of Economic Ethics
174(4)
Morality at the Margin
178(3)
Proper Conduct and Appropriateness to the Nature of the Subject Matter in Question
181(3)
Commutative Justice
184(27)
Commutative Justice as Appropriateness to the Nature of the Matter of Exchange: The Equivalence Principle
184(1)
How Do We Determine What Each Person is Entitled to in Exchange?
185(20)
Joining the Prevailing Price by the Actual Contract Price
186(7)
Appropriateness to the Nature of the Item Exchanged: No Exchange of Sham Goods
193(2)
Mutually-Advantageous Exchange: Neither Party Suffers a Loss of Net Wealth
195(2)
Commutative Justice as Virtue
197(5)
The Unavoidability of the Question of Justice
202(3)
What Is the Basis of the Obligation to Give Each Person What Is His or Hers in Exchange?
205(6)
Just Price Theory
211(33)
Preliminary Historical Remark: The Significance of Early-Modern, Probabilistic Just Price Theory
212(3)
Natural Law and Forces of Nature in the Legitimation of the Price System
215(3)
What Distinguishes the Price System from Other Forms of Price Determination?
218(1)
Formal and Non-Formal or Substantive Conditions of Price Justice
219(8)
Unification of Procedural and Structural Justice
223(2)
Allocation and Distribution
225(2)
International Price Justice
227(2)
Justice as Satisfying a Criterion or as a Synopsis of Several Criteria?
229(12)
Rawls' Criterion of a Veil of Ignorance
230(1)
The Utilitarian Criterion of Total-Utility Maximization
231(4)
Justice and Games: Hayek
235(2)
Nozick's Criterion of the Justified Claim
237(1)
Unification of Procedural and End-State Criteria
238(3)
Justice in Interaction with Nature
241(3)
Conclusion: Morality and Efficiency 244(3)
Bibliography 247(19)
Index of Persons 266(5)
Index of Subjects 271

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