TY - BOOK AU - Pandit,Vishwanath ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Ethics, Economics and Social Institutions SN - 9789811008993(ebook:PDF) U1 - 330.01 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Singapore PB - Springer Singapore(Imprint) KW - Ethics KW - Social policy KW - Economic history KW - Behavioral/Experimental Economics KW - Social Structure, Social Inequality KW - History of Economic Thought/Methodology N1 - A General Preview -- Economics and Ethics: Evolution and Interaction -- Rationality, Welfare and Ethics -- Alternatives Paradigms in Ethics -- Prosperity and Happiness -- Ethical Norms and Social Institutions -- Ethics under Deeper Views of Life -- Missions for Social Ethics -- Summing Up. N2 - The book highlights the ethical aspects and issues that are inherent to economics in the context of today's prominent social institutions. It reviews a range of problems concerning dominant social institutions, namely markets, government agencies, corporate entities, financial networks, and religious systems. Further, in each case, the book takes a detailed look at the economic problems as they arise within a broader sociological and political environment, taking into account the respective ethical/philosophical paradigms. It analyzes from an ethical point of view topics like the evolution of economic thought, happiness and spirituality, and human values in relation to ethics UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0899-3 ER -