Part 1: Ontology, Subject in General: A Theory of Cracks -- Sickness unto Excess -- Saint Paul's Notion of Split Subjectivity -- The Split Economy -- Part II: Particular Subject: Logic of the World of Finance -- The Fantasy of Harmony -- The Ethical Form of Finance -- Part III: Singular-Plural...

The questions of profit maximization -- Why profit maximization is moral -- The objective value of goods and services -- The virtues of businessmen -- Clarifying confusions about profit maximization -- Incomplete defenses of profit maximization -- The inconvenient truth about corporate social...

This article first makes the case for responsible global capitalism, and the role of belief systems in advancing or inhibiting economic efficiency and socially acceptable behaviour. It then goes on to illustrate how the content and effectiveness of three contemporary elements of the global...

Introduction / Kleio Akrivou -- Part I the common good in history: virtue epistemology as knowledge foundation for the relationships between institutions, society and person(s) -- 1. The merchant and the common good: social paradigms and the state's influence in western history / Agustín...