Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK and Boston, USA
:
Blackwell Publishers Ltd
Business ethics
11 (2002), S. 0
ISSN:
1467-8608
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Philosophy
,
Economics
Notes:
Economics has an impoverished view of virtuous human behaviour in general, and corporate social responsibility in particular. We claim that this is due to a particular, albeit currently dominant approach to economics. This approach focuses on the pursuit of wealth through efficient allocation of scarce resources by ‘rational’ utility-maximizing economic agents and institutions, such as markets, firms and states, in the exclusive pursuit of ‘efficiency’. This results in an ethic-free and often inimical approach to virtuous behaviour. However, a different approach to economics, which focuses on sustainable global resource creation and allocation, asserts virtuous responsible behaviour to be part and parcel of economic analysis and performance.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8608.00265
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