Sustainable Economies

Conscious economics: Reconstructing economic agency through rational egoism and ontological accountability

Sustainable Economies June 9, 2025 Jeffrey Overall 2 citations

This article introduces conscious economics as a novel paradigm that integrates rational egoism with consciousness expansion to redefine economic agency as an ethically self-aware and developmentally oriented process. Drawing on Kohlberg’s cognitive moral development and Maslow’s self-transcendence, the framework positions ethical self-interest as a function of ontological integration,...