Action-Oriented Economics Ethics

Author: Endre
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: This book provides a detailed explanation of the concept of "economics of ethics," identifies the three different levels of "economics of ethics," and thereby compares the differences among various economic ethics. The book pays great attention to the reform of state-owned enterprises in China. The author argues that the international academic community has rarely explored the ethical dimensions of this highly complex issue in detail, let alone placing Chinese enterprises within a broad analytical framework. As a result, the author offers their own perspectives on the various ethical challenges that China's state-owned enterprise reform may encounter, pointing out three ethical factors existing in Chinese society: (1) Confucian ethics understood in a relatively comprehensive and modern way; (2) socialist ethics endorsed by the resolutions of the Communist Party of China Central Committee; (3) the "purpose-means" method that combines deontology and consequentialism in non-Chinese ethical discussions.