Ethics, Meaning, and Market Society

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-24196-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 94 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 133 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Business and Management

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 narcissistic mind-set that dictates the decisions and behavior of people and organizations.

The author argues that art can help to overcome the dominant market metaphysics of our age, as genuine art creates models of 'poetic dwelling,' which can generate non-linear, progressive change that opens up a larger playing field for ethics. Aesthetics and ethics go hand in hand. Ethical action is not just right for its own sake, but makes the world a richer, livable and more beautiful place.

Ethics, Meaning, and Market Society will be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics, researchers and professionals. It addresses the topics with regard to ethics in economics, business, and society in a contemporary context.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zsolnai, Laszlo

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.