frugality paradigm makes clear that advances in responsible economics continue to be a priority. This book contains the … proceedings of the 2001 Annual Conference of the European SPES Forum on "Responsibility in Economics and Business: The Legacy of E …Part I. Economics -- part II. Responsibility -- part III. Responsibility in economics …

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, the economics profession has been criticized for its apparent … resulted in increased scrutiny of professional economic ethics. We argue that the only social responsibility of economists is … to maximize their career advancement within the scientific community of economists, and that the appropriate target for …

The major impediment standing in the way for economists seeking to understand Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral … misbelief among economists that Smith was a utilitarian in the WN, as opposed to being a practitioner of Virtue ethics in TTMS …. This error of equivocation occurs because economists mix up Smith's and Bentham's views on the term self interest. It is a …