Dr. Alessandro Lanteri
Thesis title
The Moral Trial: On Ethics and Economics
Supervisors
Deirdre McCloskey and Jack Vromen
Project description
Economics considers people as rational and selfish economic men. Critiques of such approach are countless. Through a critical assessment of homo economicus (his realisticness and his morality) based on experimental findings, I expect to uncover the ethics of economics both as an institutions and as a social theory. Therefore this project deals with: (i.) The ethics of the practitioners of economics; (ii.) the way economics conceives of men; and (iii.) the way economics suggests social relationships are and should be organized.
E-mail: alessandro@lanteri.org
