Multinational Corporations and the Social Contract

The constitutions of many nations have been explicitly or implicitly founded upon principles of the social contract derived from Thomas Hobbes. The Hobbesian egoism at the base of the contract fairly accurately represents the structure of market enterprise. A contractarian analysis may, then, allow...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics
Main Author: Palmer, E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2001
In: Journal of business ethics
Further subjects:B Multinational Corporation
B Social Contract
B Economic Cooperation
B Economic Growth
B Rational Restriction
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