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This article examines experience with global financial integration to identify norms for evaluating economic globalization. There are two perspectives regarding globalization: mainstream economics and personalist economics. The first perspective regards itself as value-free even though its...
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is imperative to distinguish good from evil and to act accordingly: existentialism, situation ethics and evolutionary … ethics savour of nihilism; 11. Ethical Principles: The Economist′s Quandary, which is the difficulty of balancing the claims …
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Development ethics is a new and rapidly expanding discipline within development studies and social science. The … cultivation of development ethics has the potential to produce a coherent account of human well‐being for guiding development …
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This article examines experience with global financial integration to identify norms for evaluating economic globalization. There are two perspectives regarding globalization: mainstream economics and personalist economics. The first perspective regards itself as value‐free even though its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805114
Economic theory rests on the principal axiom of egoism; that every action is driven by self interest, and is therefore seen as a moral‐free science. Morality, on the other hand, concerns subjective value judgement, usually in the interpersonal context of whether an action is right or wrong....
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The outstanding economic growth of several East Asian countries has attracted world attention. Many observers have attributed the success of these Confucian countries to their common cultural values, such as respect for authority, loyalty to good leaders, preference for order, hard work, thrift...
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Addresses the question: “Are Christian values reflected in contemporary American economic ethics?” Compares the ethics … neoclassical production efficiencies. During this period, prevailing economic ethics were largely in conflict with Christian values … these commitments, the compatibility between economic ethics and Christian values will be greater a decade from now.  …
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Solzhenitsyn, former Zek and Nobel Laureate, found the causes of the cruelty of which the Communists were capable to lie in the Marxist‐Leninist ideology. The atheistic Communists had substituted their ideology for the values of Christianity which had stood the Russians in good stead and had...
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This paper analyzes the concept of racism in the context of business ethics and globalization. It first introduces … three ethical traditions to understand moral issues in business: deontological, utilitarian and virtue ethics. Then it …
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Book VI of Aristotle′s Nicomachean Ethics is commented on, aimed at showing its relevance to some themes in … obedience to rules. While rules have their place, the subject matter of ethics cannot be determined by a quasi …. The autonomous person, able to exercise moral leadership, cultivates the Aristotelian virtue of phronēsis .  …
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