Handbook of Economics and Ethics

It has been fascinating, for people in the field of economics and for those observing it, to see how traditional approaches (such as the neoclassical) has changed in recent decades. The quantitative (positivistic) assumptions and methods have been retained in many strong ways but, increasingly woven in with them, have been qualitative and value‐related ideas. There is nowhere more obvious than where economics and ethics converge and collide, and this is what the handbook under review deals with. It offers 75 essays, written by scholars from around the world, economists and ethicists and others, that capture well the many ways...