1. Labor Resists -- 2. Early Nineteenth-Century Changes -- 3. Examples of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Business Ethics in America -- 4. Rise of Industrialization -- 5. Ethics of the Firm and Strategic Behavior -- 6. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil -- 7. Rise of the Big Retail Merchants -- 8....

This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today. It concentrates on American and British business history, delving into issues such as slavery, industrialization, firm behavior and monopolies, and Ponzi schemes. This book...

"When people encounter goods in the marketplace - sugar, clothes, phones, etc. - there is a slim chance they will seek information about the origins of those goods. Far more likely is that the goods will remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which...

Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über den Lebenslauf von John Maynard Keynes und entwickelt darauf aufbauend folgende Thesen: (a) Keynes sah sich selbst nicht primär als Wissenschaftler, sondern als Publizist. (b) Seine "General Theory" lässt sich am besten verstehen, wenn man sie als...