ETHICS AND ECONOMICS
"The social sciences have recently prided themselveg on their OthicM peutraiity/' said Pwrfwpor V- Ginsberg at the sociatiQU. "They msjgt that they are coueei-ned not fJJlWJ they ought to be, tmt as they are. There can be no doubt that much confusion has been caused by a failure to observe fhig dmtmction. Economics is said to be concerned solely with means whde the problem of ends is left to ethics. This is clearly untenabie. Ethics qannot ignore means and economics cannot ignore ends, It fe ttj moral issnes involved which at present are most urgently m need of elaftfieation, The efEectiye handling pf social problems mvolves a synthesis, hut npt a fusion of social science and social philosophy. IftMs be so, tben tbe present prganisation of teaching in the univer, sities is sadly out of balanee, The need for closer jQ-operation with social philosophy is even clearer in connection with the teaching of [ Wiiui whenua amd especially of iflte|Ugtipnal xeliU?^ '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 59, 2 December 1937, Page 4
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