The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics

Mark D. White is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, and a member of the doctoral faculty in economics at the Graduate Center of CUNY. He is the author of seven books, including Kantian Ethics and Economics: Autonomy, Dignity, and Character; editor or co-editor of many volumes, including Economics and the Virtues: Building a New Moral Foundation (with Jennifer A. Baker); and author of over sixty journal articles and book chapters in economics, philosophy, and law. He is series editor of On Ethics and Economics (Rowman and Littlefield International) and Perspectives from Social Economics (Palgrave Macmillan), and a co-founder of the blog Economics and Ethics.

• Introduction Part I: Foundations A. Ethical Theories in Economics 1: 1. Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr: Adam Smith and the Study of Ethics in a Commercial Society 2: Jennifer A. Baker: Virtue and Economics, Horse and Cart 3: Mark D. White: With All Due Respect: A Kantian Approach to Economics 4: Jonathan B. Wight: Ethical Pluralism in Economics 5: Constanze Binder and Ingrid Robeyns: Economic Ethics and the Capability Approach B. Sources of Morality in Economics 6: Geoffrey M. Hodgson: Evolution and Moral Motivation in Economics 7: Gerald Gaus: Morality as a Complex Adaptive System: Rethinking Hayek's Social Ethics 8: David C. Rose: On the Evolution of Ethics, Rationality, and Economic Behavior C. Ethics in Schools of Economics 9: Sanjit Dhami and Ali al-Nowaihi: Human Ethicality: Evidence and Insights from Behavioral Economics 10: John B. Davis: Ethics and Economics: A Complex Systems Approach 11: Peter Boettke and Kaitlyn Woltz: Economics and Ethics within the Austrian School of Economics 12: Ulrike Knobloch: Feminist Economics and Ethics 13: Arlo Klamer: Economy and Culture: The Importance of Sense-Making Part II: Applications A. Commerce and Markets 14: James R. Otteson: Humane Markets: The Classical Tradition of Political Economy 15: Julian Reiss: Capitalism and Democracy: Allies, Rivals, or Strangers? 16: Joseph Heath: The Moral Status of Profit 17: Joakim Sandberg: The Ethics of Money and Finance 18: Michael S. McPherson, and Debra Satz: Ethics And, In, and For Labor Markets B. Welfare, Risk, and Policy 19: Matthew D. Adler: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Social Welfare Functions 20: Marc Fleurbaey: The Normative Economics of Social Risk 21: Luc Bovens: The Ethics of Making Risky Decisions for Others 22: George F. DeMartino: The Tragedy of Economics: On the Nature of Economic Harm and the Responsibilities of Economists C. Ethics in Applied Economics 23: Daniel M. Hausman: Economics, Ethics, and Health Insurance 24: Eyal Zamir and Barak Medina: Deontological Morality and Economic Analysis of Law 25: David Schmidtz: The Ethics and Economics of Ecological Justice 26: Brendan O'Flaherty: Civil Rights, Employment, and Race Part III: Conclusion 27: John Broome: Lessons from Economics

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