This volume takes a hard look at the soft practice of corporate governance. It grew out of a series of contributions from the Third ISBEE World Congress on Business Ethics that took place on July 2004 in Melbourne.

John Calvin, the protestant Reformer from Geneva, was far from being the father of Capitalism as many think, misinterpreting Max Weber. He was much more the father of socially regulated market economy. In his concept of allowing interests from loans he was very strict with seven rules for...