This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from antiquity to the nineteenth … trade as a way to keep peace and prosper. The ancients considered the value and ethics of business, and many of their … respectable and virtuous, and some groups, such as Quakers, came to exemplify good business ethics. This book draws on the work of …

. Birth of a Consumer Society in Eighteenth-Century England -- 13. Quakers and Business Ethics -- 14. Labor Relations Through …1. You Can’t Live (Well) Without Business Ethics -- 2. Overview of Business Ethics -- 3. Primitive Trade -- 4. Ancient … Trade in the Near East -- 5. Greek Society -- 6. Roman Society -- 7. Jewish and Christian Attitudes -- 8. Islam and Business …

. This book is of interest to researchers and students of the methodology of economics, ethics, philosophers concerned with …