Why are people interested in money? Specifically, what could be the biological basis for the
extraordinary incentive and reinforcing power of money, which seems to be unique to the …

Nothing affects modern society more than the decisions made in the marketplace, especially
(but not only) the judgments of consumers. Stehr's designation of a new stage in modern …

Since St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the first scholastics to analyze the idea of a “just
price,” economists, economic historians and philosophers interested in the philosophical …

By analyzing a newly compiled database of exchange rates, this article finds that in Central
Europe money markets integrated cyclically during the fifteenth century. The cycles were …

Defining markets has never been an easy task. Despite their importance for economic theory
and practice, they are hard to pin down as a concept and economists have tended to adopt …

La communauté scientifique semble converger nettement pour affirmer que l'effet de serre
lié aux activités humaines n'a rien d'un mirage1. Quels principes de justice faut-il dès lors …

Introduction ethics… If they studied economic phenomena and relationships, it was in order
to advise about proper economic conduct”. 2 Thus, Langholm uses “economic ethics” as a …

Social behaviour is but an expression of instinctive mechanisms whereby the aggressive
instinct is of particular importance, having given rise to most of the complexity of social …

Applying the reciprocity instinct to monetary transactions implies that the reaction to
monetary debt and monetary credit are similar. However, evidence suggests an asymmetry. I …

This paper seeks to identify and consider ethical issues relating to the international pricing of
pharmaceuticals, drawing especially on liberal rights theories. It suggests why and how …