Business is one thing, Ethics is Another: Revisiting Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees

Recent corporate scandals raise an old question anew: is capitalism fundamentally infected by immorality? A now almost forgotten answer to this question was advanced at the dawn of capitalism, an answer that students of business ethics would find profit in considering. In the early eighteenth centur...

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Main Author: Bragues, George (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2005
In: Business ethics quarterly
Year: 2005, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 179-203
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