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金钱外部性的道德地位

The Moral Status of Pecuniary Externalities

Journal of Business Ethics · 2024
被引 6
人大 AABS 3

中文导读

反驳了近期两篇论文认为金钱外部性(通过价格体系影响第三方的成本)具有道德问题的观点,论证其不应引起道德担忧,除非有新论证出现。

Abstract

Abstract Pecuniary externalities—costs imposed on third parties mediated through the price system—have typically received little philosophical attention. Recently, this has begun to change. In two separate papers, Richard Endörfer (Econ Philos 38, pp. 221–241, 2022) and Hayden Wilkinson (Philos Public Affairs 50: 202–238, 2022) place pecuniary externalities at center stage. Though their arguments differ significantly, both conclude pecuniary externalities are in some sense morally problematic. If the state is not called on to regulate pecuniary externalities, then, at the very least, individuals should be conscious of how their productive and consumptive decisions affect others by changing prices. We disagree. Both arguments fail, in that neither gives us reason to think pecuniary externalities are cause for moral concern. Unless a new argument emerges, pecuniary externalities should be left alone.

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