| Commercial Society: A Primer on Ethics and Economics Contributor(s): Johnson, Cathleen (Author), Lusch, Robert (Author), Schmidtz, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1786613565 ISBN-13: 9781786613561 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $55.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Economy - Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 354 pages |
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| Publisher Description: One of the greatest and most joyful challenges of adult life is to develop skills that make the people around us better off with us than without us. Integrity is a key part of that challenge. We are social animals, aiming not simply to trade but to make a place for ourselves in a community. You don't want to have to pretend that you feel proud of fooling your customers into believing you could be trusted. The ethical question is: how do people have to live in order to make the world a better place with them than without them? The economic question is: what kind of society makes people willing and able to use their talents in a way that is good for them and for the people around them? The entrepreneurial question is: what does it take to show up in the marketplace with something that can take your community to a different level? In this book, the authors discuss the connections between the ethical, economic, and entrepreneurial dimensions of a life well-lived. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lusch, Robert: - Robert F. Lusch was Professor of Marketing at the University of Arizona Business School.Schmidtz, David: - David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy (College of Social & Behavioral Sciences), Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic (College of Management), founding Director of the Center for Philosophy of Freedom, founder of the Department of Political Economy and Moral Sciences, and editor in chief of Social Philosophy & Policy, at the University of Arizona. In political philosophy, Arizona is ranked as the world's #1 graduate program by the Philosophical Gourmet. Dave's sixteen former doctoral students all hold faculty positions and have published articles in Journal of Philosophy and Ethics. Oxford, Cambridge, and Princeton University Presses have published their books. He has taught at Yale, Florida State College of Law, and Hamburg University. He has been a Research Fellow at various institutions, including the Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at UBC, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Kings' College London. He was a Phi Beta Kappa National Scholar in 2015. David has published many books and articles. Many scholars claim to have written a hundred articles in their careers, but David's essays have been reprinted 91 times in anthologies, textbooks, and translations (13 languages in all). Most essays are never even cited; it is rare for one to be reprinted.Johnson, Cathleen: - Cathleen Johnson is an experimental economist. She is currently teaching in the Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law program at the University of Arizona. Her professional work has evolved into three main areas: research in behavioral aspects of investment and social norms, implementation of large research projects and research teams, and teaching economics through the use of laboratory experiments. |