Fribourg, Switzerland

Ethics and Economics

Éthique et économie politique

Master's
Language: FrenchStudies in French
Subject area: economy and administration
University website: www.unifr.ch
Economics
Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The term ethics derives from Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ethikos), from ἦθος (ethos), meaning 'habit, custom'. The branch of philosophy axiology comprises the sub-branches of ethics and aesthetics, each concerned with values.
Ethics
The price of freedom is to decide moral and political issues.
Joxe Azurmendi, interview in Deia (1 September 2012)
Ethics
“I want to be good. I can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous.”
“A very charming artistic basis for ethics, Dorian! I congratulate you on it.”
Oscar Wilde, Dorian and Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 8, p. 82
Economics
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.
Ronald Coase, The firm, the market and the law (1988) Chapter 6. A remark on "The problem of social cost" (last sentence).
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