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In the field of business ethics, Adam Smith has generally been viewed with a measure of suspicion. Smith's famous … market sceptics of business ethics. Little has thus far been done, however, to illustrate that Smith's moral writings … actually contain the fundamentals of a business ethics teaching. This paper analyzes his moral thought with a view to inferring …
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Anti-social behaviours are costly to organizations, and the ability to identify predictors of such behaviours can be valuable. In this paper, we used a within-subjects laboratory design to study choices in the well-known (hypothetical) Trolley problem as well as in a real payoff money-burning...
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Market failures, which are usually viewed as a consequence of self-interest, are also supposed to be a major justification for coercive state interventions. This was the view of, among others, Richard Musgrave and Paul Samuelson, but not of James Buchanan. The latter certainly admitted that...
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, only one scholar has examined his views on ethics and that study discussed only two of Bastiat's essays and was less than …
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Academic departmentalization has limited the dimensionality and thus the richness of analysis in the social sciences. The author examines the case of a modem economics as an example. He reviews the ideas of Williamson (2000), who cites the limits of scope in the New Institutional Economics;...
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According to social contract theories of morality, right and wrong are nothing more than the agreement among rationally self-interested individuals to give up the unhindered pursuit of their own desires for the security of living in peace. I argue that theism provides a better motivation for...
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Few people think of business ethics as being addressed outside of main-stream business ethics, philosophy and corporate … Rand's philosophy, particularly for those teaching and consulting on ethics …
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