The Moral Dimension

Provides a new framework for a comprehensive, ethical and realistic approach to the social sciences, blending elements of psychology, philosophy and sociology with economics. Blending elements of psychology, philosophy, and sociology with economics, Etzioni presents a bold new vision of the social sciences - one which proposes that broader moral, social and political concerns modify economic behaviour and shape individual decision-making. In establishing the necessitary of moral and social considerations in economic behaviour, he provides a provocative new framework for a more comprehensive, ethical and realistic approach to the social sciences today.