Morality In The Marketplace

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429942584

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What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel Pdf

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?

Author : James Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139502818

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Medieval Market Morality by James Davis Pdf

This important study examines the market trade of medieval England by providing a wide-ranging critique of the moral and legal imperatives that underpinned retail trade. James Davis shows how market-goers were influenced not only by practical and economic considerations of price, quality, supply and demand, but also by the moral and cultural environment within which such deals were conducted. This book draws on a broad range of cross-disciplinary evidence, from the literary works of William Langland and the sermons of medieval preachers, to state, civic and guild laws, Davis scrutinises everyday market behaviour through case studies of small and large towns, using the evidence of manor and borough courts. From these varied sources, Davis teases out the complex relationship between morality, law and practice and demonstrates that even the influence of contemporary Christian ideology was not necessarily incompatible with efficient and profitable everyday commerce.

Author : Virgil Henry Storr,Ginny Seung Choi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030184162

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Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals? by Virgil Henry Storr,Ginny Seung Choi Pdf

The most damning criticism of markets is that they are morally corrupting. As we increasingly engage in market activity, the more likely we are to become selfish, corrupt, rapacious and debased. Even Adam Smith, who famously celebrated markets, believed that there were moral costs associated with life in market societies. This book explores whether or not engaging in market activities is morally corrupting. Storr and Choi demonstrate that people in market societies are wealthier, healthier, happier and better connected than those in societies where markets are more restricted. More provocatively, they explain that successful markets require and produce virtuous participants. Markets serve as moral spaces that both rely on and reward their participants for being virtuous. Rather than harming individuals morally, the market is an arena where individuals are encouraged to be their best moral selves. Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals? invites us to reassess the claim that markets corrupt our morals.

Author : Aaron Levine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121974385

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Moral Issues of the Marketplace in Jewish Law by Aaron Levine Pdf

Author : Alexander Hill
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0830875913

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Just Business by Alexander Hill Pdf

"An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces." So said Mark Twain. But practicing Christians, at least, want to be ethical in all areas of life and work--not just when they are holding four aces. To those faced with the many questions and quandaries of doing business with integrity, Alexander Hill offers a place to begin. Alexander Hill carefully explores the foundational Christian concepts of holiness, justice and love. These keys to God's character, he argues, are also the keys to Christian business ethics. Hill then shows how some common responses to business ethics fall short of a fully Christian response. Finally, he turns to penetrating case studies on such pressing topics as employer-employee relations, discrimination and affirmative action, and environmental damage. This is an excellent introduction to business ethics for students and a bracing refresher for men and women already in the marketplace.

Author : Paul van Geest
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004501706

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Morality in the Marketplace by Paul van Geest Pdf

In this essay, Paul van Geest pleads for a renewal of the old ties between economics and theology as scientific disciplines, so as to arrive at a deeper and richer anthropological fundament for economic research.

Author : Michael Bauman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015033974273

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Morality and the Marketplace by Michael Bauman Pdf

Papers presented in Hillsdale College's Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar, "Morality and the marketplace." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Jason F. Brennan,Peter Jaworski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317815624

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Markets without Limits by Jason F. Brennan,Peter Jaworski Pdf

May you sell your vote? May you sell your kidney? May gay men pay surrogates to bear them children? May spouses pay each other to watch the kids, do the dishes, or have sex? Should we allow the rich to genetically engineer gifted, beautiful children? Should we allow betting markets on terrorist attacks and natural disasters? Most people shudder at the thought. To put some goods and services for sale offends human dignity. If everything is commodified, then nothing is sacred. The market corrodes our character. Or so most people say. In Markets without Limits, Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski give markets a fair hearing. The market does not introduce wrongness where there was not any previously. Thus, the authors claim, the question of what rightfully may be bought and sold has a simple answer: if you may do it for free, you may do it for money. Contrary to the conservative consensus, they claim there are no inherent limits to what can be bought and sold, but only restrictions on how we buy and sell.

Author : Rebecca M. Blank,William McGurn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815796282

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Is the Market Moral? by Rebecca M. Blank,William McGurn Pdf

In the great tradition of moral argument about the nature of the economic market, Rebecca Blank and William McGurn join to debate the fundamental questions—equality and efficiency, productivity and social justice, individual achievement and personal rights in the workplace, and the costs and benefits of corporate and entrepreneurial capitalism. Their arguments are grounded in both economic sophistication and religious commitment. Rebecca Blank is an economist by training and describes herself as "culturally Protestant in the habits of mind and heart." She has also chaired the committee that wrote the statement on Christian faith and economic life adopted by the United Church of Christ. Addressing market failure, for her, requires that sometimes "freedom to choose" give way to other human values. William McGurn, a journalist and a Roman Catholic, uses his expertise in economics to reflect on the teachings of the church concerning the morality of the market. For McGurn, humans reach their fullest potential when they are free from the constraints of others. He writes that "our quarrel is not so much with Adam Smith or Milton Friedman but with the Providence that so clearly designed man to be his most prosperous at his most free." This book grapples with the new imperatives of a global economy while working in the classic tradition of political economy which always treated seriously the questions of morality, justice, productivity, and freedom.

Author : Adam Smith (économiste)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092833964

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (économiste) Pdf

Author : Debra Satz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199892617

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Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale by Debra Satz Pdf

In Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale, philosopher Debra Satz takes a penetrating look at those commodity exchanges that strike most of us as problematic.

Author : Jessica Whyte
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786633118

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The Morals of the Market by Jessica Whyte Pdf

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society. In the wake of the Second World War, neoliberals saw demands for new rights to social welfare and self-determination as threats to “civilisation”. Yet, rather than rejecting rights, they developed a distinctive account of human rights as tools to depoliticise civil society, protect private investments and shape liberal subjects.

Author : James R. Otteson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521016568

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Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life by James R. Otteson Pdf

Adam Smith wrote two books, one about economics and the other about morality. How do these books go together? How do markets and morality mix? James Otteson provides a comprehensive examination and interpretation of Smith's moral theory and demonstrates how his conception of morality applies to his understanding of markets, language and other social institutions. Considering Smith's notions of natural sympathy, the impartial spectator, human nature and human conscience, the author addresses whether Smith thinks that moral judgments enjoy a transcendent sanction.

Author : Joseph Heath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199990498

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Morality, Competition, and the Firm by Joseph Heath Pdf

In this collection of provocative essays, Joseph Heath provides a compelling new framework for thinking about the moral obligations that private actors in a market economy have toward each other and to society. In a sharp break with traditional approaches to business ethics, Heath argues that the basic principles of corporate social responsibility are already implicit in the institutional norms that structure both marketplace competition and the modern business corporation. In four new and nine previously published essays, Heath articulates the foundations of a "market failures" approach to business ethics. Rather than bringing moral concerns to bear upon economic activity as a set of foreign or externally imposed constraints, this approach seeks to articulate a robust conception of business ethics derived solely from the basic normative justification for capitalism. The result is a unified theory of business ethics, corporate law, economic regulation, and the welfare state, which offers a reconstruction of the central normative preoccupations in each area that is consistent across all four domains. Beyond the core theory, Heath offers new insights on a wide range of topics in economics and philosophy, from agency theory and risk management to social cooperation and the transaction cost theory of the firm.

Author : Vito Tanzi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108420938

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Termites of the State by Vito Tanzi Pdf

A sweeping historical account of the crises of income inequality and crony capitalism from a world-renowned public economist.