On the Ethics and Economics of Organized Citizenship

Bibliographic Data

ID20500511
AuthorsFernando Leal Carretero (0000-0003-1353-7387, Universidad de Guadalajara, corresponding author), Fernando Leal (0000-0002-8343-0051)
Year2006
Volume13
Issue4
Pages569-587
Publication date2006-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOrganization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1350508406065106
OpenAlexW2108662035
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

Nongovernmental organizations, charities and civil associations that purport to provide care, education and other ethical services without a profit motive represent themselves to the public as altruistically exercising citizenship. Their moral credentials seem impeccable. Yet many things are not what they appear to be, or what they should be, in what we may call ‘organized citizenship’. To follow the trail, we might make use of modern economics, whose recognition of ‘market failures’ has given way (via public choice theory) to the increasingly accepted reality of ‘government failure’. It may now be time to admit that there is also something like ‘civic failure’. For if all three sectors of society—business, government and civil organizations—are needed, they are also all imperfect

Business ethics · Citizenship · Civil society · Economics · Government failure · Imperfect · Law and economics · Market economy · Market failure · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Profit motive · Public relations · Public sector · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Public Administration

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