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	<title>Civilizing the Economy</title>
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	<description>Marvin T. Brown</description>
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		<title>The Commercial and the Civic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One way of seeing the choice we face in this coming election is a choice between the commercial and the civic.  The following chart highlights some of the differences. The Commercial The Civic Key value Ownership Membership The development of the civic When our country was founded, only property owners could vote, the commercial dominated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2010/08/the-commercial-and-the-civic/</link>
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		<title>BP is not a bad citizen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BP is not a bad corporate citizen; because it is not a citizen at all.  This idea of a “corporate citizen “is just a bad idea.  It doesn’t show much understanding of either corporations or citizens.  In Civilizing the Economy, I outline four aspects of a corporation or four ways we can think about them: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2010/07/bp-is-not-a-bad-citizen/</link>
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		<title>The what and how of civic conversations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we need to separate the question,” What should we do?” from the question, “How should we do it?”  “What should we do about our public schools?” for example, is quite different from the question “How should we improve our schools?”  Or is it?  If we cannot imagine a way to improve our schools, then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2010/06/the-what-and-how-of-civic-conversations/</link>
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		<title>Born to be a citizen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Aristotle, even though families and clans preceded the emergence of the city, the city was the end that human communities aimed for.  To be a good member of the city—a good citizen—was the human telos or final end.   In some ways I think he was right. How different from the world that Adam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2010/06/born-to-be-a-citizen/</link>
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		<title>Civic Consciousness as Belonging to this Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, others seem to belong to another time.  When we try to understand religious fundamentalists, for example, it is easy to apply a temporal framework.  They talk as though modern science, or humanistic research never occurred.  They deny historical and literary criticism. They remind us of what we learned about early periods in Western history, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2010/05/civic-consciousness-as-belonging-to-this-generation/</link>
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		<title>Adam Smith&#8217;s silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Calling Adam Smith’s treatment of slavery in CTE his “silence” about slavery is really a polite way of exposing his cover-up of the role of slavery in the creation of the wealth that he enjoyed.  I admit that at various times Smith did say things about slavery in his book on the causes of wealth, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2010/05/adam-smiths-silence/</link>
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		<title>What goes with what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some words belong together, and some do not.  Most of us would not have any problem, for example, with the idea of a “church party,” but some might.  Kenneth Burke called our notions of what-goes-to-what our piety.  He believed that we are all pious to the degree that some paring of terms irritates us and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2010/05/what-goes-with-what/</link>
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		<title>Connecting the Dots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How about this as a TV game show:  “Connect the Dots.”  For example, how would you connect the fabulous salaries of professional athletics with the deterioration of our public schools? A future Hall of Fame linebacker for the 49ers just signed a multi-year contract for as much as 50 million dollars.  This was announced in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2010/05/connecting-the-dots/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a Citizen?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my business ethics classes, I ask students to take on the role of a citizen when we consider the ethics of business in society.  What does that mean, especially in a classroom filled with students from perhaps ten to twelve different countries?  What would it look like for a student from China or from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2010/04/whats-a-citizen/</link>
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		<title>Is the Biosphere Priceless?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The German nineteenth century philosopher, Immanuel Kant, wrote that there are two kinds of things: things that have a price and those that have a dignity.  For Kant, only human beings have a dignity because they alone have autonomy.  I would like to suggest that we should add to Kant’s list of those things that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2010/04/is-the-biosphere-priceless/</link>
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