Purpose – Economics was closely entwined with ethics up to the 1930s when this weakened subsequently. Amartya Sen first … sketched this historical relationship in his book, On Ethics and Economics. This paper is in broad agreement with Sen. It aims … to explore the ethical foundations of economics in ancient Greece, focussing on Plato's Republic. Design …

Purpose – Economics was closely entwined with ethics up to the 1930s when this weakened subsequently. Amartya Sen first … sketched this historical relationship in his book, On Ethics and Economics . This paper is in broad agreement with Sen. It aims … to explore the ethical foundations of economics in ancient Greece, focussing on Plato's Republic . Design …

grounded in Catholic social thought and runs counter to the individualism of mainstream economics, focusing on need in the …. Findings – Mainstream economics regards consumption as satisfying human material wants. Need is disregarded except when poverty … is addressed. Personalist economics insists that there are needs of the human spirit which are addressed through …

grounded in Catholic social thought and runs counter to the individualism of mainstream economics, focusing on need in the …. Findings – Mainstream economics regards consumption as satisfying human material wants. Need is disregarded except when poverty … is addressed. Personalist economics insists that there are needs of the human spirit which are addressed through …

Distributional issues have re-emerged as an important issue in economics, social science, and philosophy in the last … world has been (re)asserted, developing an incipient Judeo-Christian economics. Methodologically, this undertaking is … comparable to that underlying the evolution of Islamic and other forms of religious economics. The methodology employed in the …

Distributional issues have re‐emerged as an important issue in economics, social science, and philosophy in the last … world has been (re)asserted, developing an incipient Judeo‐Christian economics. Methodologically, this undertaking is … comparable to that underlying the evolution of Islamic and other forms of religious economics. The methodology employed in the …

The legacy of the last 50 years of development economics is not very inspiring. In the 1960s and 1970s, instead of … looking at the real causes and viable solutions to poverty and underdevelopment, development economics was preoccupied with …. Despite its past problems, development economics has recently evolved to better reflect the realities of developing countries …

pioneered the area of micro-foundation of macro-economics. The great missing link in economic theory, both of micro-economics … and macro-economics, is the inability to methodologically integrate ethical and moral values through preference mapping …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the “Radical economics” issue in International Journal of Social … Economics. Design/methodology/approach – “Radical economics” has two basic meanings. One employs the basic sense of “radical … orthodoxy of the time. This issue examines radical economics in both senses. Findings – The recent world economic crisis raises …