Empirical Economic Ethics Research: Evidence Regarding Accounting and Statistics

Abstract

In this article I want to present the perspective and dimension of economic ethics which highlight a combination between the two disciplines economics and ethics, uniting value judgments from both disciplines, for to predict, analyze and model the economic phenomena. It includes theoretical ethical premises and foundations of economic systems.

This approach was necessary for not to be confused the economics ethics with business ethics. The concept of business ethics, used in anglo-saxon space, as the equivalent to the ethics of economic entity), represents the set of moral rules and norms which aimed the conduct of agents in economic activity, and which, also regardless of the size of the economic entities, must be integrated as part of the entity's strategy.

To highlight this difference between business ethics and economic ethics I presented real evidence by which it is combined the accounting and statistics, like economics disciplines and ethics.