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The Values of the Enterprise Culture: The Moral Debate book cover

1st Edition

The Values of the Enterprise Culture The Moral Debate

Edited By Paul Heelas, Paul Morris Copyright 1992
308 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1992,  The Values of the Enterprise Culture  examines the moral implications of a cultural reform programme centered on reviving capitalist production, expanding individual freedom, dismantling the culture of dependency, and restoring personal responsibility. This book aims to deepen our understanding of fundamental issues that affect everyday lives—issues at the heart of... Read more

Preface

1. Enterprise culture: its values and value
Paul Heelas and Paul Morris

Part 1: Enterprise culture – then and now

2. Enterprise regained
Lord Young of Graffham

3. The enterprise culture in historical perspective: birth, life, death – and resurrection?
Harold Perkin

4. The enterprise culture: old wine in new bottles?
David Marquand

5. Enterprise – towards the emancipation of a concept
Tony Skillen

Part 2: The morality of enterprise values

6. Enterprise in its place: the moral limits of markets
Raymond Plant

7. Adam Ferguson’s critique of the ‘enterprise’ culture
Ted Benton

8. The human impact of the market
Sean Sayers

Part 3: The ethics of enterprising self

9. Governing the enterprising self
Nikolas Rose

10. Enterprising kinship: consumer choice and the new reproductive technologies
Marilyn Strathern

11. The personal right to identity: a polemic on the self in the enterprise culture
Anthony P. Cohen

12. Enterprise, omnipotence and dependency: a psychoanalytic approach to political culture
Barry Richards

Part 4: Religion and enterprise

13. The invisible hand: providence and the market
David Nicholls

14. Critical reflections on Michael Novak’s The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Alan Suggate

15. Individual and community in religious critiques of the enterprise culture
Kenneth Thompson

16. Is God enterprising? Reflections on enterprise culture and religion
Paul Morris

Biography

Paul Heelas

Paul Morris

Review of the original publication:

‘This book makes an important contribution to the understanding of, and debate about, enterprise culture.’

— Ken Jubber, University of Cape Town, Cape Town

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