This paper attempts to uncover the relevance of Cicero's thought to present-day management through an analysis of his last philosophical work, On Duties. Applying a methodology grounded in Socratic skepticism, Cicero synthesizes the Stoics and Aristotle to create his own moral theory. From this...

Richard Posner's recent book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, is not the first attempt to economically analyze the intellectual marketplace. Eighteen hundred years ago, Lucian applied the same framework to the market for philosophers in the Roman Empire. Though widely seen as a...

In the field of business ethics, Adam Smith has generally been viewed with a measure of suspicion. Smith's famous invocation of the invisible hand - according to which self-interest promotes the greater good - has generally been seen as a fundamental challenge to a discipline committed to the...