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Multiculturalism, globalization, and morality of economics as a social science
Author(s) -
Marko Malović
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
economic annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.148
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1820-7375
pISSN - 0013-3264
DOI - 10.2298/eka0356123m
Subject(s) - morality , multiculturalism , globalization , sociology , environmental ethics , social science , political science , positive economics , economics , economic system , philosophy , law
Culture is a shared heritage that is passed on from one generation to another. Culture affects one’s behaviour and structures one’s perception of the world. The same goes for subcultures. Hence, sciences are no more than coherent systems of human learning arising within certain subcultures, represented by groups of people that share many common values, methodologies and ethics, which all enables extensive commu-nication between them while at the same time distinguishes and somewhat separates them from other social particles. So be warned right ahead, whenever an economist writes on economics, globalism or the world affairs, his insightful essay is bound to be fairly biased! But so shall your criticism be as well! And that’s precisely what it is all about in broadest sense of human matters: successful ethical systems tend to deliver subcultures that robustly perpetuate those same ethical systems which made them be. This trivial principle helps to explain the persistent division of people into cacophonic collection of religions, tribes and ideological movements. That’s why only in interculturalism or metaculturalism (if there could be such a thing), only through spectral variety of shared experiences, introspection and mutual respect may we hope to understand ourselves, as well as operandi and direction of the social dynamics we stand for. Setting aside diplomacy and international politics, reserved for the most fortunate few, it has always been essentially economics (and business) which brought about voluntary international migrations, joint ventures, multicultural

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