Ethics and Economics: an Internal Relation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The relationship between ethics and economics in the modern age is typically viewed as external.This view is usually articulated in the notion that for economic relations to be ethical, an ethic must beimposed. Otherwise, economic relations are amoral. I try to show how the relationship is actually bestexplained by adopting an explanatory framework of inter-dependent arising, according to which theemergence and development of both ethical and economic relations is a matter of mutual determination.Ethical values emerge in the course of developing economic relations and, in turn, direct or at leastimplicate economic relations. The consequences of such a view, however, are that exchange values informmoral concepts (e.g., of what is morally owed to members of a community) and moral concepts help frameeconomic ones. I offer an argument that starts with a description of an historical relationship between twodisparate cultures (English and Iroquoian). The interactions between these cultures were determinedinitially by trade and then military interests. These interests eventually underwent pressure to evolve intolegal and even religiously informed arrangements that necessarily involved certain moral values. Using apresupposition analysis, I show how this evolution was no accident and did not depend on some agent(s)imposing the moral values onto the relationship. Rather, those values arose as a matter of course. Inconclusion, the paper advances the idea that, since the relationship between ethics and economics isinternal, the ethics of economic relations needs to be formulated more in terms of understanding whateconomic relations are fundamentally designed to achieve.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it