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Practicing Professional Ethics in Economics and Public Policy

Elizabeth Searing, Donald R. Searing (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

297 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-017-7305-8 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the professional ethics of addresses the varied ethical needs of the professional economists and public policy professionals. Using terms and methods familiar to the reader, the book goes beyond the typical narrative of economics and morality to walk the professional through the process of ethical decision-making. Designed to be easy to navigate and applicable to everyday practice, this book includes a step-by-step illustrated guide through an ethical decision-making process using a methodology specifically tailored to economists and policy professionals. It describes numerous unique ethical tests and resolution methods which are utilized in a portfolio structure. The book also includes a brief and convenient catalogue of important figures in philosophy and ethics, translated into their policy applications; it concludes with candid advice from experts in different subfields on how ethics impacts their professional lives. This volume provides afoundation and framework for those in economics and public policy to implement a relevant practice of professional ethics both at and in their work.

Preface.- Part I. The Role of Ethics.- Chapter 1. Why Am I Reading This?.- Chapter 2. People to Know.- Part II. Ethical Decision-Making.- Chapter 3. Framing the Problem.- Chapter 4. Hypothesis Testing.- Chapter 5. Drawing Conclusions.- Chapter 6. Case Studies.- Part III. Perspectives on Professional Ethics.- Chapter7. Ethics and the Central Bank (Harold A. Vásquez-Ruíz).- Chapter8. Ethics and Climate Change Policy (Julie Nelson).- Chapter9. Ethics and Experimental Economics (John Ifcher & Homa Zarghamee).- Chapter10. Ethics and Health Policy (Howard Brody).- Chapter 11. Ethics and Human Resource Management (Elizabeth Scott).- Chapter12. Ethics and Forensic Economics (John Ward).- Chapter13. Ethics and Nonprofits (Woods Bowman).- Chapter14. Ethics and Professional Practice (Andrew Cohen).- Chapter15. Ethics and Public Policy (Judith Wagner DeCew).- Chapter16. Ethics and Social Justice (Druscilla Barker).- Chapter 17. Conclusion -- Where Ethics Was, Is, and Should Be.-Appendix A: Ethical Analysis Workbook.- Appendix B: Professional Codes of Conduct in the Social Sciences.- Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.1.2016
Zusatzinfo	16 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 297 p. 16 illus.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	Applied and Professional Ethics • Applied and Professional Ethics in Regulated Professions • Applied and Professional Ethics in the Social Sciences ( • Aristotle and modern virtue ethics • Conflicts of Interest • Ethical decision-making • Ethical Economics • Ethics and Altruism • Ethics and Authority • ethics and equity • Ethics and Poverty • Ethics and Price Theory • Ethics and Welfare • golden rule • Kantian categorical imperative • Policy Making and Ethics • Resolution of conflict • Teaching Ethics to Economists
ISBN-10	94-017-7305-X / 940177305X
ISBN-13	978-94-017-7305-8 / 9789401773058
Zustand	Neuware