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The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics

Abend, Gabriel - Princeton University Press

In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual … investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s. According to Abend, morality consists … of the history of business ethics and a novel framework for understanding and investigating morality in general. …

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“Organic” Gift-Giving and Organ Transplantation, the Development of Economic Sociology and Morality in a Super-Monetized World: An Interview with Philippe Steiner

Steiner, Philippe - In: Journal of Economic Sociology 15 (2014) 1, pp. 11-19

Philippe Steiner, Professor of Sociology at Paris-Sorbonne University, was interviewed by Chris Swader, Associate Professor of Sociology at the Higher School of Economics. This interview was conducted during the international conference “Embeddedness and Beyond: Do Sociological Theories Meet...

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Behavioral ethics for Homo economicus, Homo heuristicus, and Homo duplex

Kluver, Jesse; Frazier, Rebecca; Haidt, Jonathan - In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 123 (2014) 2, pp. 150-158

In this article we explore how assumptions about human nature may influence the ways one might try to promote ethical behavior in organizations. We summarize two common views of human nature in organizational research—Homo economicus and Homo heuristicus. We then extend these views by putting...

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Ethics vs. Morality: Political Economics of Education

Temel, Bulent - ToKnowPress

ethics and morality, and normative judgments passed on research that observes academic guidelines are detrimental to the … process. While the thesis may be controversial from the angle of morality to some observers, it is endorsable from the …

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Who never tells a lie?

Vanberg, Christoph - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2015

Erat and Gneezy (2012) conduct an experiment to test whether people avoid lying in a situation where doing so would lead to a Pareto improvement. They conclude that many people exhibit such a "pure lie aversion." I argue that the experiment does not provide a reliable test for such an aversion,...

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The moral ecology of markets: on the failure of the amoral defense of markets

Finn, Daniel - In: Review of Social Economy 61 (2003) 2, pp. 135-162

Many economists have defended capitalism; most have tried to do so within the self-imposed methodological constraint that economists should employ only empirical arguments, not normative ones. This essay examines three classic amoral defenses of capitalism—by Milton Friedman, James Buchanan,...

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Economic Models of Sin and Remorse: Some Simple Analytics

Eisenhauer, Joseph - In: Review of Social Economy 62 (2004) 2, pp. 201-219

Economists have recently shown a renewed interest in studying immoral behavior and the feelings of guilt or remorse that such acts engender. Yet the research in this nascent literature has generally lacked mathematical rigor and precision, and the disparate models have not been reconciled with...

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Introduction to good faith in construction contracts

Dagenais, Daniel Alain - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 7, pp. 715-721

Advocating good faith as a key element of construction contracts under a 'new contract morality', as it has been …

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ХРИСТИАНСКИЕ МЫСЛИТЕЛИ СРЕДНЕВЕКОВЬЯ О СООТНОШЕНИИ ЭКОНОМИКИ И НРАВСТВЕННОСТИ

КОЛЫЧЕВА Е. Ю. - In: Проблемы современной экономики (2012) 3, pp. 392-395

Вопрос взаимосвязи экономики и нравственности актуален сегодня в связи с многочисленными экономическими и духовными проблемами современного общества. Чтобы...

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Marxâ€™s Concept of Man: Alienation, Exploitation and Socialism

Bakshi, Om - In: International Studies 48 (2011) 2, pp. 85-111

For long, the feeling has been that Marx views man essentially in terms of his material interests. The publication of Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, however, has led many to realize that he is keenly interested in developing individual potentialities, realizing â€˜human...

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