Some Explorations in the Twilight Zone Between Economics and Ethics

Ross B. Emmett

A chapter in Frank H. Knight in Iowa City, 1919–1928, 2011, pp 263-284 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Students of the social sciences do not need to be reminded that one of the leading modern schools of ethics has been made up chiefly of economists. I refer of course to the utilitarian school. Utilitarianism, or economic ethics, is the type of ethical theory which has been predominant in the past century and a half – the “modern era” if we date from the great overturn in social theory brought in by the Enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions. If its predominance in literary and academic discussion may possibly be questioned, its predominance in the thought and actions of statesmen, law-givers, publicists, and reformers certainly cannot be. A brief consideration of the utilitarian ethics will form the starting point for my argument.

Date: 2011
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