Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: “While Conforming to . . . Law and . . . Ethical Custom”: How to Do Humanomics in Business Ethics vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Wealth and Commerce in Archaic Greece: Homer and Hesiod 11
6. 2. Aristotle and Business: Friend or Foe? 31
7. 3. Confucian Business Ethics: Possibilities and Challenges 53
8. 4. The Earthly City and the Ethics of Exchange: Spiritual, Social, and Material Economy in Augustine’s Theological Anthropology 75
9. 5. Thomas Aquinas: The Economy at the Service of Justice and the Common Good 95
10. 6. The Ethics of Commerce in Islam: Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah Revisited 115
11. 7. Hobbes’s Idea of Moral Conduct in a Society of Free Individuals 135
12. 8. John Locke’s Defense of Commercial Society: Individual Rights, Voluntary Cooperation, and Mutual Gain 157
13. 9. As Free for Acorns as for Honesty: Mandevillean Maxims for the Ethics of Commerce 179
14. 10. “Commerce Cures Destructive Prejudices”: Montesquieu and the Spirit of Commercial Society 201
15. 11. Hume on Commerce, Society, and Ethics 221
16. 12. The Fortune of Others: Adam Smith and the Beauty of Commerce 241
17. 13. Why Kant’s Insistence on Purity of the Will Does Not Preclude an Application of Kant’s Ethics to For-Profit Businesses 263
18. 14. Tocqueville: The Corporation as an Ethical Association 283
19. 15. J. S. Mill and Business Ethics 301
20. 16. Karl Marx on History, Capitalism, and . . . Business Ethics? 321
21. 17. Friedrich Hayek’s Defense of the Market Order 341
22. 18. The Power and the Limits of Milton Friedman’s Arguments against Corporate Social Responsibility 359
23. 19. Beyond the Difference Principle: Rawlsian Justice, Business Ethics, and the Morality of the Market 381
24. 20. Commitments and Corporate Responsibility: Amartya Sen on Motivations to Do Good 401
25. Contributors 421
26. Index 423