Ethics and Economic Affairs

There has been a remarkable growth of interest in the ethical dimension of economic affairs. Whilst the interest in business ethics has been long-standing, it has been given renewed emphasis by high profile scandals in the world of business and finance. At the same time many economists, dissatisfied with the discipline’s emphasis on self-interest and individualism, and by the asocial nature of much economic theory, have sought to enlarge the scope of economics by looking at ethical questions. In this volume, a group of interdisciplinary scholars provide contributions which include evaluations of work in business ethics, empirical studies of such issues as social and ethical investing, the place of ethics in the new economics and perspectives from other disciplines.

Author Biography

Alan Lewis is Director of the Centre of Economic Psychology at the University of Bath. He has published a number of books on economic psychology. Karl-Erik Wärneryd is Professor Emeritus of Economic Psychology at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. He has extensive research experience both in his native Sweden and abroad. He is the author of various publications on the subject.