Routledge - Virtue and Economy: Essays on Morality and Markets

Explore the intersection of ethics and economic theory with Virtue and Economy: Essays on Morality and Markets. Part of the Rethinking Political and International Theory series, this text addresses a significant gap in current academic study. While Aristotelianism and virtue ethics have seen increased interest in political science, their application within the field of economics remains underdeveloped. This collection offers a direct challenge to the foundational premises of neoclassical economic theory. The contributors examine the separation of values from facts and question the standard treatment of preferences as fixed data points. By addressing the refusal of neoclassical models to reason about final ends, this book presents a new way of looking at market dynamics. This text is built on the premise that ethical reasoning regarding human ends is essential for a complete understanding of economic systems. It provides a necessary framework for students and scholars interested in how morality and markets function together rather than in isolation.