On the Relationship Between Economics and Ethics

Comment on White on the Relationship Between Economics and Ethics

“…Introduction: Investigating Emergent Disciplinary Fields Mark White's examination of economics and ethics as a field of investigation makes the relationship between different disciplines central to its explanation and understanding as an emergent disciplinary field. Drawing on Jordi Cat's discussion of the different ways in which different disciplines can be related (Cat, 2017), he characterizes economics and ethics as a crossdisciplinary field in which economics and ethics each borrow from one another to serve their independent disciplinary goals (White, 2018). This implies that potentially there are two economics and ethics fields, one within economics and one within philosophy with relatively little communication between them.…”