The Oxford handbook of professional economic ethics /
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016] |
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| Description: | xxii, 777 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | [Oxford handbooks] Oxford handbooks. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10804072 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Introduction, or Why This Handbook?
- Part II. Uncertainty, Risk and Professional Economic Ethics
- 2. The Skin-in-the-Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events
- 3. The Ethics of Economic Decision Rules
- 4. In Praise of Imperfect Commitment: An Ethic of Power, Professionalism, and Risk
- 5. "Econogenic Harm": On the Nature of and Responsibility for the Harm Economists Do as They Try to Do Good
- Part III. The Ethical Nature of Economic Practice
- 6. About Doing the Right Thing as an Academic Economist
- 7. The Social Responsibility of Economists
- 8. The Ethical Economist: Duty and Virtue in the Scientific Process
- Part IV. The Ethical Entailments of Economic Theory
- 1. General Issues
- 9. Ethics in Relation to Economics, Ecology, and Eschatology
- 10. Poisoning the Well, or How Economic Theory Damages Moral Imagination
- 11. Economists' Odd Stand on the Positive-Normative Distinction: A Behavioral Economics View
- 12. The Complex Ethical Consequences of "Simple" Theoretical Choices
- 13. Good, Evil, and Economic Practice
- 2. Economic Theory and the Great Recession
- 14. Alternative Ethical Perspectives on the Financial Crisis: Lessons for Economists
- 15. Economists' Ethics in the Build-Up to the Great Recession
- Part V. Ethical Issues in Economic Research
- 1. Experimental Economics
- 16. Ethics and Advances in Economic Science: The Role of Two Norms
- 17. The Meaning of Deceive in Experimental Economic Science
- 2. Econometrics
- 18. Honesty and Integrity in Econometrics
- 19. Lady Justice Versus Cult of Statistical Significance: Oomph-less Science and the New Rule of Law
- 3. Field Research
- 20. Balancing Risk and Benefit: Ethical Tradeoffs in Running Randomized Evaluations
- 21. Conducting Ethical Economic Research: Complications from the Field
- 22. The Unprincipled Randomization Principle in Economics and Medicine
- 4. Conflict of Interest
- 23. Professional Disequilibrium: Conflict of Interest in Economics
- 24. Considerations on Conflict of Interest in Academic Economics
- Part VI. Ethical Issues in Applied Economics
- 1. Development
- 25. Ethics, Economic Advice, and Economic Policy
- 26. Neoclassical Economics as the New Social Engineering: The Debacle of the Russian Post-Socialist Transition
- 27. The Ethics of Economic Development and Human Displacement
- 28. How Can We Better Address the Gaps in Our Knowledge About Development Effectiveness?
- 2. Economic Advising in Government and Beyond
- 29. Confessions of a Policy Analyst
- 30. Ethics and the Government Economist
- 31. The Ethics Problem: Toward a Second-Best Solution to the Problem of Economic Expertise
- 32. First Tell No Untruth
- 3. Forensic Economics
- 33. Ethical Issues in Forensic Economics
- Part VII. Ethical Issues in Economic Education
- 34. Exposure and Dialogue Programs in the Training of Development Analysts and Practitioners
- 35. Ethics and Learning in Undergraduate Economics Education
- Part VIII. Looking Ahead
- 36. Creating Humble Economists: A Code of Ethics for Economists
- 37. Codes of Ethics for Economists, Pluralism, and the Nature of Economic Knowledge
- Author Index
