Moral economics: economic and philosophical analysis of the concept

Authors

  • A. V. Bondarenko Ufa State Petroleum Technical University (Ufa, Russian Federation)
  • N. V. Mizhareva St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
  • I. V. Nigmatullina Ufa Branch of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Ufa, Russian Federation)

Keywords:

Moral economy, economic man, morality, exchange value, ethics, welfare, society

Abstract

Fancy names of subject areas of scientific knowledge in the modern scientific world, like nothing else, reflect the excessive consumption in society. The variety of choices that postulates human freedom eventually turns into chaos: something that is neither controlled, nor measured, nor regulated, nor, in the end, amenable to ordinary formal logic. Socionomics, socieconomics, social economics, solidarity economics, sociological economics, etc., no amount of abstract is enough to list only combinations of social and economic. But, if you undertake to list, for example, combinations of ecology and economics, then there will be such a number of directions that a reasonable person will have a natural question: the global issues facing humanity from year to year are the same, the answers are the same, and the number of directions that are theorizing, explaining, measuring, evaluating the same phenomena is increasing. And the completion of such a variety of theories and currents of economic thought is moral economics, in the essence and content of which there are absolute antipodes that disorient the axiological space of modern society. In this study, the authors will try to use scientific methods of cognition that have a philosophical basis to reveal the nature of the appearance of contradictions in economic knowledge when materialized matters are mixed with spiritual values. The necessity, causal mechanisms of occurrence are considered, the objectivity of the need for the presence of moral signs of economic processes is studied. The subject of the study is moral economics, as a characteristic example of an absolutely contradictory axiological and economic phenomenon. The aim of the research is a theoretical analysis of the truth of the synthesis of morality and economics in the modern social formation. The materials and results of the study are: 1. Theoretical analysis of the subject area, expressed in three main sections: The history of the issue, Morality, ethics and economics, general logical understanding of concepts, Ethics of morality and ethics of economics; 2. Formal and logical argumentation of the inconsistency of the causality of the presence of morality in the economy of D. M. Hausman; 3. Argumentation of the absence of signs of convergence of morality and economics at the present stage of economic formation.

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Author Biographies

A. V. Bondarenko, Ufa State Petroleum Technical University (Ufa, Russian Federation)

PhD in Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Social and Political Communications of the Institute of Oil and Gas Business

N. V. Mizhareva , St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

PhD in Law, lecturer of the Transport Safety Department

I. V. Nigmatullina, Ufa Branch of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Ufa, Russian Federation)

PhD in Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy, History and Law

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2022-09-07

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Bondarenko А. В., Mizhareva Н. В., & Nigmatullina И. В. (2022). Moral economics: economic and philosophical analysis of the concept . DISCUSSION | Journal of Scientific Publications on Economic ISSN 2077-7639, 112(3), 26–36. Retrieved from https://discussionj.ru/index.php/polemik/article/view/64

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Economics and management of the national economy

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