Homo Curator: Towards the Ethics of Consumption

Peter Róna is Fellow of Blackfriars Hall and Director of Las Casas Institute's Economics Programme, University of Oxford, where he teaches courses in economics and the philosophical foundations of the social sciences. He obtained his B.A. degree in economic history (cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from Oxford University (First Class) in 1964. His published articles include a study of the Euro and an examination of the philosophical foundations of economics. Editor of Springer’s Virtues and Economics series. Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is Associate Member of the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and President of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium. Co-editor of Springer’s Virtues and Economics series. Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price is head of Behavioural Economics at the Polish Economic Institute in Warsaw (Poland) and Junior Research Fellow in Las Casas Institute’s Economics Programme, University of Oxford. Graduate of Warsaw School of Economics, Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam (EIPE) and Newcastle University where she received her PhD in political economy. Member of the Polish Philosophy of Economics Network.

• Introduction.- Part I: From gluttony and avarice to moderation and virtue.- Chapter 1. Blessed are the Gentle (Joshtrom Kureethadam).- Chapter 2. Avarice in post-modern society (Stefano Zamagni).- Chapter 3. What is Enough (Margaret Atkins).- Chapter 4. Buddhism and the Right Consumption (Laszlo Zsolnai).- Chapter 5. Good consumption in the perspective of Thomistic Personalism (Laura Baritz).- Part II : Is mainstream economics to blame?.- Chapter 6. Political Economy, Moral Reasoning and Global Warming (David Rose).- Chapter 7. A Critical Approach to Critiquing Economics (Geoffrey Brennan, Hayden Wilkinson).- Chapter 8. Response from Peter Róna.- Chapter 9. Economics and three faces of prudence (Edward Skidelsky).- Part III: Way forward.- Chapter 10. Social Trust, Virtue, and Market Coordination (Dominic Burbidge).- Chapter 11. A Deeper Humanity: The Family as the School of an Inclusive Economy (Joseph Rice).- Chapter 12. A radically new way to tune compound interest and its implications (Eors Szathmary).