Unfettered or Tempered Capitalism? How Best to Promote Virtuous Characters
In the book's preface, McCloskey explains that it is the first of a planned four-volume set that asks us to make “a fresh start in our attitudes … toward how we earn a living.”1 She asks us to embrace unapologetically our capitalist society. We should neither scorn nor feel guilty about the rel...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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Business ethics quarterly
Year: 2007, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 573-584 |
| Review of: | The bourgeois virtues (Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007) (Spurgin, Earl W.)
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| Summary: | In the book's preface, McCloskey explains that it is the first of a planned four-volume set that asks us to make “a fresh start in our attitudes … toward how we earn a living.”1 She asks us to embrace unapologetically our capitalist society. We should neither scorn nor feel guilty about the relative luxury capitalism affords most of us since it is necessary to develop the full, virtuous life that the ancient Greeks, most notably Aristotle, advocated. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-3326 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/beq200717337 |