1st Edition

Ethics, Meaning, and Market Society

By Laszlo Zsolnai Copyright 2018
94 Pages
by Routledge

94 Pages
by Routledge

94 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the underlying causes of the pervasive dominance of ‘unethics’ in contemporary affairs in economics, business, and society. It is argued that the state of unethics is related to the overexpansion of market and market values in all spheres of social life and human activities. A correlate of this development is the emergence of an extremely individualistic, materialistic and... Read more
 

Part 1: Why Unethics?

1. Introduction: Market Overreach

Part 2: The Mechanism of Unethics

2. The Market and the Corruption of Activities

3. When the Invisible Hand Fails

4. Moral Disengagement

Part 3: Nature and Future Generations

5. Integral Ecology and Future Earth

6. Nurturing Place

7. The Fate of Future Generations

Part 4: Business and Economics

8. The Fallacy of Stakeholder Management

9. Economic Ethics and World Religions

10. Beyond Self

Part 5: The Richness of Life

11. Art Can Save the World

Biography

Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. He also serves as President of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium.