Ethical Foundations of Economic Security

Economic security is based on a series of ethical principles and values without which this important economic goal of Islam wont be materialized. The existence of relatively abundant wrongdoings, crimes and sins regarding the ethical issues in the economic behaviors of individuals, private businesses, governmental, non-governmental and semi-governmental organizations and even charitable foundations makes studying the ethical foundations of economic security a necessary task. The present study is of an exploratory nature and its main question is that what ethical principles and values directly affect economic security. The research method, here, is the analytical deductive one. The findings show that the stable, just and sympathetic economic security would be materialized if individual's internal capacities and controls and Islamic ethical traditions come into operation in the society, markets, constitutions, public regulations and ethical inferred policies.