Introducing Environmental Ethics into Economic Analysis: Some insights from Hans Jonas’ Imperative of Responsibility

Damien Bazin, Sylvie Ferrari and Richard B. Howarth

Bordeaux Economics Working Papers from Bordeaux School of Economics (BSE)

Abstract: This paper analyses how Hans Jonas’ Imperative of Responsibility may provide useful insights into the analysis of sustainability issues. The challenges of environmental and social sustainability in terms of inter-generational fairness are analysed and involve a moral duty that is applicable to economic governance. To what extent responsibility is an alternative to utilitarianism and as a principle facilitating the coordination of the agents involved? Exploring this question may be a first step towards the long-term and sustainable conservation of Nature.

Keywords: Environmental ethics; intergenerational fairness; responsibility principle; self-binding behaviour; sustainability. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q01 Q20 Q32 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Working Paper: Introducing Environmental Ethics into Economic Analysis: Some Insights from Hans Jonas' Imperative of Responsibility (2021)
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