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Economic process as institutionalization of values. Karl Polanyi’s institutional theory and its ethical consequences
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)This article is devoted to a critical reconstruction of Karl Polanyi’s institutional theory and its ethical consequences. Starting with the distinction between the formal (neoclassical) and the substantive (institutional) ... -
Cultural anthropology of Bronisław Malinowski and reflections on the economic crisis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The paper revisits two theories from the cultural anthropology. The first theory is by Bronisław Malinowski, and the second one by Karl Homann. Malinowski criticizes economism and moralism. I present further stages of this ... -
Ethical foundations of competitive order according to Walter Eucken
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)Ordoliberalism is a German economic and legal doctrine, in which ethics occupies a privileged place. The basic premise is the freedom and responsibility of human beings. In contrast, the starting point for considering ... -
The early stages in the evolution of Economic Man. Millian and marginal approaches
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The homo economicus (Economic Man) concept is one of the best-known components of economic theorising frequently recognised as a part of the “hard core” of the mainstream 20th-century economics. This model gained such a ... -
Amartya Kumar Sen’s ethical interpretation of poverty
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)On the threshold of the 21st century, the problem of poverty remains unresolved. Many still suffer from hunger, and many more have no access to running water, or education. This raises a fundamental question that has ... -
Business Ethics in Adam Smith’s works
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)This paper presents some views of Adam Smith based on some selected problems of business ethics. These can be found in his famous works—The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations—and in his lectures at the ... -
Sen’s concept of development as freedom and the idea of sustainable development
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)On the one hand, the contemporary world is a place of sheer abundance; on the other, it is a place where the poverty is widespread, people’s needs are unsatisfied, and the natural and socioeconomic systems remain unstable. ... -
The limits of moral responsibility for global poverty
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)Most people, especially in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, suffer and die from lack of food, shelter, and medical care, whereas other people in rich countries are extremely well-off. Because of the globalization process ... -
Plato’s The Republic recovered. A few ethical, economic and social aspects in contemporary dialogues
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The main purpose of the article is the presentation and interpretation of some ethical, economic and social aspects in the works of Plato. The division of labour, wealth, the meaning of money, use of interest and paying ... -
The attractiveness of the project of practical methodology and virtue epistemology for the economic history research
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)Ewa Domańska, a distinguished historian of historiography and the methodologist of history, has provided an insightful commentary on the state of humanities and social sciences. The development of interdisciplinary research ... -
The human as capital? A contribution to the critique of the theory of human capital
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)In modern economic theories, human qualities are treated as autonomous production factors, which are called “human capital”. However, these theories provide no description of the relationship between human capital and the ... -
Human capital and economic development: The axiological perspective
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)Global capitalism is both an outcome and a stimulant of spreading not only the same market economy standards and lifestyles but moral relativism as well. Its origin goes back to Anglo-Saxon liberalism that limits the ... -
The institutional context of rationality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)In the last three decades, mainstream economics has been influenced by authors associated with new institutional economics and new behavioral economics. The dispute over rationality as an assumption of economic theories ... -
Causality and inference in economics: An unended quest
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The aim of this article is to point to the unsolved research problems connected to causation in the philosophy of economics. First, the paper defines causation and discusses two notable approaches, i.e. the realist theory ... -
On the valuation of economic goods
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The presented study includes an analysis of the category of “good” on the basis of philosophy and economics. Particular attention was paid here to the factors determining the monetary value (price) of an economic good. ... -
The marginal morality (die Grenzen der Moral) as an ethical challenge and as the knowledge on how to gain competitive advantage
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The aim of this article is to scrutinize the relationship between the moral attitude of an entrepreneur and his or her possibility to gain competitive advantage. This declaration leads to the following question: does the ... -
Axiological entanglement of economics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)In mainstream economics, the principle of freedom from value judgment (Wertfreiheit) is enforced. This principle has different interpretations. The aim of this paper is to present the author’s interpretations of the principle ... -
Utilitarianism: Doctrinal analysis evolution of thought
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)Utilitarianism as an innovative and original stream of ethical and political thought has enriched the philosophical discourse of the last three centuries. Utilitarian thinkers claim that maximization of pleasure correlated ... -
A moderate position in the debate on the possibility and moral utility of the ethical standards codification
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The popularisation of drawing up codes that are addressed to various social groups is one of the features of the modern world. However, researchers of the phenomenon have not yet reached a consensus about the moral validity ... -
Between philosophical heights and practical necessities. Some remarks on the idea of applied ethics
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)For many people the expression “applied ethics” sounds like a pleonasm. They tend to claim that ethics by its very nature is about practical matters. It deals with human actions and their motivations and there is no need ...