Profits and Morality

Robin Cowan & Mario J. Rizzo, eds.

ISBN 10: 0226116328 / ISBN 13: 9780226116327

Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995

About this Item

8vo, textblock measuring approx 9" x 5.8." vii, 183pp. Publisher's Review slip laid in.

Condition: Closer to "Like New" than VG, text unmarked, with only detractions a previous owner's private library label and just a hint of rubbing to the dj, the dj now protected in a removable mylar sleeve.

Location: A3.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1782426941679

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Profits and Morality
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226116328
• ISBN 13: 9780226116327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 6W x 9H x 0.7D inches 6 inches width by 9 inches height by 0.7 inches depth
• Weight: 1.001 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business & Economics
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science

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Synopsis

Are profits morally justifiable? While neoclassical economists have traditionally endorsed the pursuit of profits, many moral philosophers have challenged profit making on a variety of ethical grounds. Through the lenses of economics, philosophy, and law, these six essays explore the morality of profits from libertarian, utilitarian, and consequentialist perspectives.

Presenting arguments for and against the morality of profit making, the contributors examine the nature of profits and which ethical theories can support them. Two essays address how profits are made: one explores entrepreneurship as a legitimate source of profit, while another argues that recent advances in welfare economics weaken the case for the morality of profits. The other chapters focus on ethical theory, covering the right to profits from economic rent; the morality of how profits are used—those directed toward library or university endowments, for example, are considered morally acceptable—and whether or not profits are deserved.