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This book explores the under-researched sources of the consumerist culture and the environmental damage it has brought about. The book is an outcome of the symposium on “The Ethics of Consumption” organised and hosted by the Las Casas Institute at the Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford as part of its Economics as a Moral Science Programme. It takes on two contemporary problems: the human weakness and capacity for wrong-doing, and the failure of modern economic theory to account for the moral character of human behaviour and its implicit encouragement of gluttonous life-styles. In a time when grand political schemes are proposed to revive sustainability of global economy, the authors of the papers collected in this book highlight the need for moral renewal without which the most revolutionary structural reforms are bound to fail at producing the desired outcome. Topics of the book include the meaning and sources of avarice, the attempt to define what is enough, exploration of philosophical and theological perspectives which can serve as building blocks for the ethics of consumption. This makes the book of great interest to a broad readership of economists, social scientists and philosophers.

Business ethics. --- Economics. --- Culture. --- Philosophy. --- Business Ethics. --- Cultural Economics.

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This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume of the Virtues in Economics series and represent further contributions to the themes set out in that volume: (i) examining the philosophical and methodological fallacies of this turn in modern economic theory that the removal of the moral motivation of economic agents from modern economic theory has entailed; and (ii) proposing a return descriptive economics as the means with which the moral content of economic life could be restored in economic theory. This book is of interest to researchers and students of the methodology of economics, ethics, philosophers concerned with agency and economists who build economic models that rest in the intention of the agent.

Philosophy and social sciences. --- Economic history. --- Phenomenology . --- Research—Moral and ethical aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Theory (Philosophy). --- Philosophy of the Social Sciences. --- History of Economic Thought/Methodology. --- Phenomenology. --- Research Ethics. --- Philosophical Methodology. --- Philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophy, Modern --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Social sciences and philosophy --- Social sciences --- Philosophy of the Social Sciences --- History of Economic Thought/Methodology --- Phenomenology --- Research Ethics --- Philosophical Methodology --- History of Economic Thought and Methodology --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics --- An Essay on Humble Economics --- from a Theoretical Basis to the Next System --- How (not) to Connect Ethics and Economics --- Identity Theories in Economics --- Normative Distinction in Economic Methodology --- Open Access --- Research Ethics in Economics --- Words and Objects in Economics --- The Complexity of Human Nature --- The Making of Economic Theory --- The Naturalisation of Normative Economics --- Social & political philosophy --- Economic history --- Phenomenology & Existentialism --- Ethics & moral philosophy --- Philosophy of science --- Topics in philosophy