“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.”
John Rawls begins his seminal work, A Theory of Justice, with this thought-provoking sentence. It’s a great sentence for thinking about the economy, since the economy is a social institution and economics is a system of thought. In fact, it may be that the first barriers to economic justice are the falsehoods of much of current economic thought.
Scenes of hunger, TV game shows, Lotteries, Breadlines, Shopping, or Donations: where do we learn about money? Many of us desire it, work for it, wish we had more of it, and yet we also know that it is not the answer to many questions. When is money the answer? Check out the following five questions
Marvin T. Brown, Ph.D teaches business and organizational ethics at the University of San Francisco and Saybrook University in San Francisco.
This book is the culmination of 30 years of teaching and writing on business and society from a communicative perspective. Visit workingethics.com for more information.
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