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The challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good :

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1784717908

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9781784717902

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9781784717919 (ebook)

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The challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good :

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[Book]

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interdisciplinary perspectives /

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edited by Kleio Akrivou, Associate Professor, University of Reading, UK and Visiting Associate Research Professor, University of Navarre, Spain; Alejo José G. Sison, Professor University of Navarre, Spain.

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Northampton, MA, USA :

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Edward Elgar Publishing,

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[2016]

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©2016

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xiv, 314 pages ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Front Matter; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I The common good in history: virtue epistemology as knowledge foundation for the relationships between institutions, society and person(s); 1. The merchant and the common good: social paradigms and the state's influence in Western history; 2. The 'medieval', the common good and accounting; 3. The civilization of commerce in the Middle Ages; 4. Virtuous banking: the role of the community in monitoring English joint-stock banks and theirmanagements in the nineteenth century

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11. Two kinds of human integrity: towards the ethics of the inter-processual self; 12. Prudence as part of a worldview: historical and conceptual dimensions; 13. Non-Western virtue ethics, commerce and the common good; 14. Reflections on the concept of the common good from an economic perspective; Index

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5. Disposed towards self-restraint: the London clearing banks, 1946-71PART II Aristotelian virtue, the common good and current relevance for capitalism, institutions and persons' agency; 6. Revisiting the common good of the firm; 7. Integrated habitus for the common good of the firm: a radically humanistic conception of organizational habitus with as ystemic human integrity orientation; 8. Corporate agency, character, purpose and the common good; 9. Individual and organizational virtues; 10. Corporations, politics and the common good

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The evolution of modern capitalist society is increasingly being marked by an undeniable and consistent tension between pure economic and ethical ways of valuing and acting. This book is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary contribution that challenges the assumptions of capitalist business and society. It ultimately reflects on how to restore benevolence, collaboration, wisdom and various forms of virtuous deliberation amongst all those who take part in the common good, drawing inspiration from European history and continental philosophical traditions on virtue. Editors Kleio Akrivou and Alejo José G. Sison unite well-known academics who examine new ways of understanding the relations between social classes, organizations, groups and the role of actors-persons. They propose ways to restore virtue in our economy-society-person relations with the purpose of overcoming the current challenges of capitalism which more often than not sacrifice happiness and broader, sustained prosperity for the achievement of short-term efficiency. This book also explores a moral psychology that underpins normative virtue ethics theory, and seeks a deeper understanding on how the concept of prudence and the distinct forms of rational excellence have evolved since Aristotle and the co-evolution of Western-Aristotelian and Eastern virtue ethics traditions. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to business ethics scholars, organizational behaviour academics, organizational sociologists, qualitative research scholars and economic historians. Policy-makers who are interested in improving collaborative frameworks and cross-institutional collaboration policies will also find value in this book. -- Back cover.

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9781784717919

Business ethics.

Capitalism-- Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics-- Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics-- Sociological aspects.

Social responsibility of business.

Business ethics.

Capitalism-- Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics-- Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics-- Sociological aspects.

Social responsibility of business.

Society.

Society.

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Akrivou, Kleio

Sison, Alejo G.

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20200823054217.0

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