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Contents General IntroductionDP Chattopadhyay I Introductory 1 Introduction to ethics and economics a preliminary survey of the issuesAshok S Guha II Ethics and the economist historical notes on the ethical 2 The humanist context in political economy economics and social choiceTapas Majumdar 3 John Stuart Mill and Non-Welfaristic welfare economicsPrasanta K Pattanaik III Theories of Justice 4 On some macro and micro theories of distributive justiceRajat Deb 5 Fair and lovely some theoretical considerations in the equitable allocation of resourcesArunava Sen IV Problems of implementation 6 Strategy proofness an introductionBhaskar Dutta 7 Institutionalizing virtue how morality may survive the rate raceAshok S Guha V Capitalism and ethics 8 Capitalism and moralityDeepak Lal 9 The economics of corporate social responsibilityMaitreesh Ghatak 10 Ethics and the marketAshok S Guha and Brishti Guha 6 Section VI Ethics economics and evolution 11 How Sapient is Homo economicusKaushik Basu and Ashok S Guha IndexThe volumes of the Project on the History of Science Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of Indias heritage and present them in an interrelated way In spite of their unitary look these volumes recognize the difference between the areas of material civilization and those of ideational culture The project is not being executed by a single group of thinkers and writers who are methodologically uniform or ideologically identical in their commitments The project is marked by what may be called methodological pluralism Inspite of its primarily historical character this project both in its conceptualization and execution has been shaped by scholars drawn from different disciplines It is for the first time that an endeavour of such a unique and comprehensive character has been undertaken to study critically a major world civilizationShould economists as members of a tribe who pride themselves as practitioners of a scientific discipline confine their enquiries to analyzing the world as it is or should they also pontificate about what ought to be The fact that this debate has never been satisfactorily resolved constitutes the justification for this book which explores various aspects of the interface of economics and ethicsSome of the issues that the various contributors to this volume discuss are 1 what constitutes a just allocation of economic resources 2 what is meant by fairness in exchange 3 what mechanisms exist or can be designed to ensure fairness at the micro or justice at the macro-levelPart of the book is devoted to a related but not identical issue Empirical evidence strongly suggests the presence in most populations of a degree of honesty and a sense of fairness well beyond what would be expected in a world of narrowly selfish maximizers Homo economists it seems does not rule in most societies But how do values like intrinsic honesty survive the competitive environment of the market an institution based as Adam Smith famously declared not on the benevolence of the participants but on their self interestMore generally is there a morality that evolves spontaneously out of the interactions of our species What light can economists throw on the evolutionary origins of ethical concepts like reciprocity which underlie the whole process of exchange This volume represents a brief exploration of such questions 264 pp.