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Rethinking Moral Agency in Markets: A Book Discussion on Behavioral Economics
Author(s) -
McRorie Christina
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/jore.12138
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , moral agency , george (robot) , moral psychology , behavioral economics , capitalism , politics , sociology , positive economics , environmental ethics , law and economics , political science , social science , economics , law , philosophy , finance , artificial intelligence , computer science
Recent work in behavioral economics and psychology provides valuable resources for religious ethicists. This book discussion examines contributions by Cass Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton, Uri Gneezy and John A. List, and Douglas Hough. This literature raises important questions about ethical decision‐making, moral agency and responsibility, and the ethics of life in global capitalism. It also opens up promising areas for interdisciplinary dialogue between economics and religious studies. This book discussion concludes that religious ethicists have much to contribute to the conversations about moral anthropology that are now being held in behavioral economic research, and to the broader political economic debates in which this research participates.