IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-981-95-2077-0_5.html

Gandhian Perspectives on Ethics in Economics: Reflections on Nadkarni’s Engagement with Gandhi

In: Quest for Planetary Well-Being

Author

Listed:
  • Akhil Anand

    (Jodhpur (2022–2024 Batch), MBA from Indian Institute of Technology)

Abstract

The intersection of the study of what is right and wrong and that of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services has been a hot topic, especially in relation to contemporary global capitalism. The traditional view, however, is that the economic concept as a discipline is considered neutral to values concentrating on effectiveness, productivity and accumulation of wealth. However, this has a narrow perspective since these systems have profound implications for human welfare, fairness in society and environmental protection. Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most influential moral philosophers during the twentieth century who spoke against it saying economics must be based on morality.

Suggested Citation

  • Akhil Anand, 2026. "Gandhian Perspectives on Ethics in Economics: Reflections on Nadkarni’s Engagement with Gandhi," Springer Books, in: Ananta Kumar Giri & R. S. Deshpande (ed.), Quest for Planetary Well-Being, chapter 5, pages 81-100, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-95-2077-0_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-2077-0_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-95-2077-0_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.