The centenary of E.F. Schumacher's birth (1911-1977) offered an urgent opportunity to revisit his work and life. Against the background of the crisis at the beginning of this century, reconsidering Schumacher's Small is Beautiful or frugality paradigm makes clear that advances in responsible...

Tending the body: the history of economics -- Tending the soul: the defense of "noneconomic values" -- Bringing body and soul together -- Love and money? The question of individual motivation -- Business and ethics? The question of organizational behavior -- Keeping body and soul together

"In whose interests should a corporation be run? Over the last thirty years the field of 'stakeholder theory' has proposed a distinctive answer: a corporation should be run in the interests of all its primary stakeholders - including employees, customers, suppliers and financiers - without...