Ethics and Economic Affairs

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.

1 The longstanding interest in business ethics: An introduction Part I Business ethics and management 2 Exit or voice? Lessons from companies in South Africa 3 Moral and ethical dimensions of managing a multinational Business 4 Management by ethics: A new paradigm and model for corporate ethics 5 Moralization as a link between idealism and naturalism in the ethical discourse 6 Social responsibility in the human firm: Towards a new theory of the firm’s external relationships Part II Case, questionnaire and experimental studies 7 Fairness in consumer pricing 8 Social and ethical investing: Beliefs, preferences and the willingness to sacrifice financial return 9 Ethical issues in the world of finance: Two empirical studies 10 Ethical regulation of economic transactions: Solidarity frame versus gain-maximization frame Part III A new economics? 11 Ethics, ideological commitment and social change: Institutionalism as an alternative to neoclassical theory 12 Interpersonal relations: A disregarded theme in the debate on ethics and economics 13 Economy and ethics in functionally differentiated societies: History and present problems 14 Social ownership: A comparison of the property rights, social choice and economic justice approaches Part IV Interdisciplinary perspectives 15 Niklas Luhmann’s sociology of the economic system: Some moral implications 16 Ideology and morality in economics theory 17 Politics, public choice and ethical progress18 Economics and the Enlightenment: Then and now 19 Endpiece