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The bourgeois virtues : ethics for an age of commerce

Author:Deirdre N. McCloskey

Summary:Presenting a survey of ethical thought and economic realities - from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich, this title offers a view that capitalism is good for us. It shows that American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations.

Print Book, English, ©2006

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2006

Genre:History

Physical Description:616 s

ISBN:

9780226556635, 0226556638

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:185234125

Subjects:

Business ethics

Business ethics History

Capitalism Moral and ethical aspects

Capitalism moral and ethical aspects

Commerce Aspect moral

Commerce Moral and ethical aspects

Commerce ethics

Economic history

Ekonomisk historia

Handel etik och moral

Histoire économique

Kapitalism etik och moral

Morale des affaires Histoire

Social ethics History

Vertus Histoire

Virtues History

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