Value Economics: The Ethical Implications of Value for New Economic Thinking
Nov 2016 · Springer
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The last financial crisis revealed a gap between business practice and ethics. In Value Economics, Griffiths and Lucas examine some of the reasons for this ethical gap and discuss the resulting loss of confidence in the financial system. One of the reasons has been hazy or inadequate thinking about how we value economic enterprises. With the close link between the creation of value and business ethics in mind, this book proposes that economic value should become the basic metric for evaluating performance in the creation of value, and for establishing fair and reasonable standards for executive compensation. Value Economics considers a number of rational philosophical principles for business management, on which practical codes of business ethics can be based. As the creation of value has moral implications for economic justice, the book reaffirms the argument for economics as a moral science, and seeks, within the context of proposed changes in the regulation and control of financial services, to answer the following question: will things really change after the last financial crisis?
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M. R. Griffiths was Managing Partner for Italy at the actuarial consulting firm, Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson), until retiring in 2003, and is now a non-executive director of two Italian insurance companies in Milan, Italy. He was previously President of the British Chamber of Commerce for Italy where he has lived for thirty years.
J. R. Lucas is a Fellow and Former Tutor of Merton College, Oxford, and previously a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is a former President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, and his publications include Democracy and Participation (1976), On Justice (1980) and Responsibility (1993).
J. R. Lucas is a Fellow and Former Tutor of Merton College, Oxford, and previously a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is a former President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, and his publications include Democracy and Participation (1976), On Justice (1980) and Responsibility (1993).
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