Foreword: “While Conforming to . . . Law and . . . Ethical Custom”: How to Do Humanomics in Business Ethics
Deirdre N. McCloskey
Introduction
Eugene Heath and Byron Kaldis
1 Wealth and Commerce in Archaic Greece: Homer and Hesiod
Mark S. Peacock
2 Aristotle and Business: Friend or Foe?
Fred D. Miller, Jr.
3 Confucian Business Ethics: Possibilities and Challenges
David Elstein and Qing Tian
4 The Earthly City and the Ethics of Exchange: Spiritual, Social, and Material Economy in Augustine’s Theological Anthropology
Todd Breyfogle
5 Thomas Aquinas: The Economy at the Service of Justice and the Common Good
Martin Schlag
6 The Ethics of Commerce in Islam: Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah Revisited
Munir Quddus and Salim Rashid
7 Hobbes’s Idea of Moral Conduct in a Society of Free Individuals
Timothy Fuller
8 John Locke’s Defense of Commercial Society: Individual Rights, Voluntary Cooperation, and Mutual Gain
Eric Mack
9 As Free for Acorns as for Honesty: Mandevillean Maxims for the Ethics of Commerce
Eugene Heath
10 “Commerce Cures Destructive Prejudices”: Montesquieu and the Spirit of Commercial Society
Henry C. Clark
11 Hume on Commerce, Society, and Ethics
Christopher J. Berry
12 The Fortune of Others: Adam Smith and the Beauty of Commerce
Douglas J. Den Uyl
13 Why Kant’s Insistence on Purity of the Will Does Not Preclude an Application of Kant’s Ethics to For-Profit Businesses
Norman Bowie
14 Tocqueville: The Corporation as an Ethical Association
Alan S. Kahan
15 J. S. Mill and Business Ethics
Nicholas Capaldi
16 Karl Marx on History, Capitalism, and . . . Business Ethics?
William H. Shaw
17 Friedrich Hayek’s Defense of the Market Order
Karen I. Vaughn
18 The Power and the Limits of Milton Friedman’s Arguments against Corporate Social Responsibility
Alexei Marcoux
19 Beyond the Difference Principle: Rawlsian Justice, Business Ethics, and the Morality of the Market
Matt Zwolinski
20 Commitments and Corporate Responsibility: Amartya Sen on Motivations to Do Good
Ann E. Cudd
Contributors
Index