Morals and Markets
Reading: Bruni and Sugden 2013 – Reclaiming Virtue Ethics for Economics (B&S) Falk and Szech 2013 – Morals and Markets (F&S) A. Introduction 1. Whats an example of ethical behaviour? How about unethical? 2. Vote: do markets promote ethical behaviour or not? (Make clear this is an opinion, no 'right answer'. Options: yes/no/Im not sure) 3. What do B&S think? How about F&S? (Options:yes/no/Im not sure) B. Bruni and Sugden B&S - Understanding 1. What is an example of a virtue? (e.g. what is a virtue of students, or soldiers?) 2. What is 'telos'? 3. What is the telos of a pen? What is the telos of a university? 5. What, according to virtue ethics and B&S, is the relationship between telos and virtue? 6. What, according to B&S, is the telos of markets? 7. What about the virtue of markets? 8. So what is B&S' conclusion/thesis? B&S - Discussion 9. What do you think the telos of a market is? 10. Are t