As an interdisciplinary field, economics and ethics has been taught in many different ways. The chapter describes the challenges teaching this subject involves and the strategy I ultimately adopted for doing so after trying different approaches. This strategy was meant to address the needs of a...

When economists learn how to model decision-making, whether on the part of individuals or governments, it almost always takes the form of maximization of utility or welfare, based on individual or social preferences, within given resource constraints. Although these are the standard models and...

Ethics is an integral part, not just an appendix, to economics. It is essential to make this point clear to students at the very beginning of their study of economics - in Lesson 1. That isn’t done now. In fact, the thought that economics teachers will tell students that ethics is central to...

Introducing a normative dimension into economic reasoning is a problem almost never dealt with in standard textbooks. The aim of this chapter is to discuss a way of introducing some ethical issues into economic reasoning that can be taught in economic courses. In particular, the case of...

In this chapter, we claim that different approaches to the analysis of the relationship between ethics and economics have different implications both for the theoretical development of that relationship and for teaching ethics to economists. We show that under standard economic theorizing, the...

Ferda Dönmez Atbaşı and Irene Sotiropoulou, in ‘Ethics and grassroots economics: a quest for collective meaning’, present the approach to economics that informs the grassroots economics research programme. By grassroots economics is meant knowledge about the economy and economic practices...

In their chapter Malcolm Brady and Marta Rocchi provide theoretical foundations for the introduction of ethics within a strategy or decision-making module, with a particular focus on managerial decision. After showing the limitations of traditional models of managerial decision-making (rational...

This chapter elucidates the ethical implications of Marx’s critique of the system of capital accumulation via a critique of neoclassical economics, its reliance on Pareto optimality, and their basis in Lionel Robbins’ characterization of the scope and object of economics. To that end,...

In this chapter it is argued that there are notable parallels between the different strands within ethics on the one hand, and the discipline of accounting on the other hand that, in teaching, can be drawn upon to enhance students’ understanding of the latter. Accounting, part of economics,...

In this chapter we argue it is unethical to teach economics without ecological economics because we are in a climate emergency. Moreover, we are in a climate emergency, in part, because of the role played by economics. We begin by distinguishing the ‘right thing to do’ from the more nuanced...