The Elephant in the Room: On the Absence of Corporations in Bernard Hodgson’s Economics as a Moral Science

In his book Economics as a Moral Science, Bernard Hodgson argues that economics is not value neutral as is often claimed, but is a value-laden discipline. In the long argument for this in his book, Hodgson never discusses or even mentions corporations. This article explains that corporations are abs...

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Main Author: Bishop, John Douglas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2012
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 108, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-35
Further subjects:B stockholder theory
B Value-laden economics
B Corporations
B Rationality
B Neo-classical economics
B Economic Theory
B Moral science
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