Common Good – Ethical Economics Books and Research https://ethicaleconomicsbooks.com Ethical Economics Local and Global Books and Resources for analysing ethics in the economy Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:32:05 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Promoting the Common Good https://ethicaleconomicsbooks.com/product/promoting-the-common-good/ Sat, 20 May 2023 11:01:02 +0000 https://ethicaleconomicsbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=616 Modern economics has deliberately divorced itself from all moral and ethical considerations in the belief that it needs to be a value-free science. In schools and universities students are taught that what matters is maximising profits and cutting costs – any other considerations are irrelevant to them as economists. This is the philosophy which guides multinationals…

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]]> The Natural Economy https://ethicaleconomicsbooks.com/product/the-natural-economy/ Sat, 20 May 2023 11:00:38 +0000 https://ethicaleconomicsbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=597 Many doubt the existence of economic laws, but the once mighty Soviet Union collapsed because the grand theory on which it was based did not accord with the facts of economic life. It was unscientific. More recently, Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain from 1997-2007, repeated almost like a mantra ‘we will never return to the old boom and bust’ even in his April 2007 Budget…

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