Self-Interest, Self-Deception and the Ethics of Commerce
On taking the common distinction between the legal and the ethical as a point of departure, and in an effort to understand Marshall's approach to self-interest, and thereby to his conception of an ethics of commerce, I read three of his essays in the light of some non-technical writings of Fran...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
2004
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-206 |
| Further subjects: | B
Chivalry
B Greed B Self-deception B theorizing B Self-interest B Debreuan economy |
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| Summary: | On taking the common distinction between the legal and the ethical as a point of departure, and in an effort to understand Marshall's approach to self-interest, and thereby to his conception of an ethics of commerce, I read three of his essays in the light of some non-technical writings of Frank Hahn and three other Cambridge intellectuals. My larger project connects self-interest and self-deception to a possible ethics of theorizing in economics, and thereby to the ethics of the relationship between the theorist and the theorized, the analyst and the analyzed. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/B:BUSI.0000035908.04255.bb |