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The business of commerce : examining an honorable profession / James Chesher and Tibor R. Machan.
Lippincott Library HF1008 .C44 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chesher, James, 1941-
- Series:
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; 454.
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 454
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commerce--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Commerce.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Business ethics.
- Businessmen--Conduct of life.
- Businessmen.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 310 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- Chesher and Machan explore the cultural, philosophical, and theological sources of the bad reputation suffered by business in Western culture, sampling prominent opinion, from Plato to Galbraith, in an examination of the fundamental dichotomies of a society that seeks prosperity, yet disdains the processes by which prosperity is achieved.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0817996222
- OCLC:
- 40113465
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