Ethics and economics, values and market: since the beginning of modernity, the relationship between the terms of the two couples seems hopelessly conflicted. For some, only the market can be a powerful and neutral means of aggregation, on the basis of mutual interests between individuals of different faiths and beliefs. For others, ethics and religion are the best antidote to the chaos and the moral indifferentism, products from the market.
A group of scholars of moral philosophy and politics, mainly composed of young researchers trained at the University of Genoa, has taken up the intellectual challenge that dichotomy between values and market brings. In the essays collected by Mirella Pasini, the authors discuss theories by Adam Smith and Vilfredo Pareto, Luigi Einaudi and Piero Sraffa, Leo Strauss and John Rawls, along with corporate social responsibility, the interactions between individual ethics and public institutions, the critique of liberalism. The result is a wide-ranging discussion, that the effects of globalization and the current crisis make increasingly urgent.
M.Pasini wrote the Introduction and the essay \u201cFiducia, sicurezza, mercato\u201d
