Recent Submissions

  • In Search of the ‘Spirit of Capitalism’: About Normative Mechanisms Responsible for the Organisation of Social Behaviours 

    Kutyło, Łukasz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
    The starting point for my reflections was a thesis presented by Max Weber more than one hundred years ago. According to this thesis, a Protestant ethos was an important factor responsible for the spectacular economic growth ...
  • Social and Economic Significance of Moral Capital 

    Wódka, Marek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
    In recent years, or even months, Polish scholars have gradually become more and more interested in moral capital. Generally, they have addressed this issue without going into much detail. Building on the latest publications ...
  • Communicating a Company’s CSR Activities Through Social Networks: A Theoretical Framework 

    Grzesiuk, Kalina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
    Companies which decide on socially responsible activities usually take into consideration benefits including the marketing effects of CSR programmes. However, in order to achieve that, the information about the socially ...
  • Ethics, Uncertainty, and Macroeconomics 

    Maziarz, Mariusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
    In this article, I focus on the difference in moral judgment of macroeconomic interventions between the deterministic world of a thought experiment and the uncertain reality. The macroeconomic theory coined by Keynes is, ...
  • Public Policy and Social Good: Theory, Practice and Beyond 

    Shukla, Rajesh C. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
    In this paper I argue that the most fundamental goal of any public policy is to assist the realization of social good. I take it that the idea of social good has developed differently in different political and moral ...
  • Improving the Relationship between Welfare Economics and Ethics 

    Pagliari, Carmen; Odoardi, Iacopo (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
    In this essay, the essential aspects of Welfare Economics are summarized in order to analyse the possible links with Ethics, and consequently to provide useful suggestions for Economic Policy. The Introduction contains the ...
  • Teaching Ethics in an Unethical World 

    Rehman, Sharaf N. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
    We find ourselves in times where national leaders engage in fraudulent and deceptive behaviors for personal and political gains, and multinational corporations use unethical practices to maximize their profits. Where ...