The morals of markets and related essays

The morals of markets and related essays /

The Morals of Markets offers a philosophically and historically informed defense of a market-based form of social organization. Acton discusses the profit motive, competition, monopoly, the supposed impersonality of the marketplace, the assumed chaos of markets, self-interest, egalitarianism, centra...

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Main Author: Acton, H. B. (Harry Burrows), 1908-1974
Other Authors: Gordon, David, 1948-, Shearmur, Jeremy, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, ©1993.
Subjects:
Business ethics.
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects.
85.02 philosophy and theory of business administration and organization science.
Bedrijfsethiek.
Kapitalisme.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the ethics of capitalism
  • The orals of markets: an ethical exploration
  • Chapter 1 : the theme of the essay
  • Chapter 2 : the profit motive
  • Chapter 3 : the ethics of competition
  • Chapter 4 : the egalitarian collectivist alternative
  • Chapter 5 : some reflections on planning and predicting
  • Chapter 6 : summary and conclusion
  • Tradition and some other forms of order
  • Objectives: an essay on Hayek's constitution of liberty
  • Distributive justice, the invisible hand and the cunning of reason.

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