Commercial Society

A Primer on Ethics and Economics

AvCathleen Johnson,Robert Lusch

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

One of the greatest and most joyful challenges of adult life is to develop skills that make the people around us better off with us than without us. Integrity is a key part of that challenge. We are social animals, aiming not simply to trade but to make a place for ourselves in a community. You don’t want to have to pretend that you feel proud of fooling your customers into believing you could be trusted.The ethical question is: how do people have to live in order to make the world a better place with them than without them?The economic question is: what kind of society makes people willing and able to use their talents in a way that is good for them and for the people around them?The entrepreneurial question is: what does it take to show up in the marketplace with something that can take your community to a different level?In this book, the authors discuss the connections between the ethical, economic, and entrepreneurial dimensions of a life well-lived.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-04
Mått:150 x 222 x 19 mm
Vikt:485 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Economy, Polity, and Society
Antal sidor:354
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786613561

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Entreprenörskap inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Företagsekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Cathleen Johnson teaches the Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law program at the University of Arizona, USA.Robert Lusch was Professor of Marketing at the University of Arizona, USA.David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic in the Eller College of Management, both at the University of Arizona, USA.

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Commercial Society is about how to understand a market economy. The book, part of the "Economy, Polity, and Society" series, is a primer on economics and ethical entrepreneurship. The authors (all, Univ. of Arizona) cover concepts in both microeconomics and macroeconomics, and they provide chapters on business and entrepreneurship. The chapters are brief and cover the basics; each chapter concludes with exercises and topics for class discussion. Each chapter also has a QR code, that, when scanned with a cell phone, takes the user to a website for more information. . . This work could serve as a textbook on economics for students who are not economics majors. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, including students in technical programs.

Innehållsförteckning

Ethics, Economy, and EntrepreneurshipWhy Ethics?Why Economy?Why Entrepreneurship?Part 1: Key ConceptTradeResourcesCostInstitutionsValuePart 2: ProgressAdam Smith on ProgressTransaction Cost and ProgressCommerce and ProgressProduction Possibilities FrontierWhat Seems Like ProgressPart 3: Understanding TradeConditions for TradeComparative AdvantageDivision of LaborBuyersSellersA Market: Supply and DemandA Market Responds: Price and QuantityEconomic SurplusPrice Signals and Spontaneous OrderPrice ControlsEconomic Science: Putting Theory to the TestProgress and Wealth CreationPart 4: Trust, Agency, and BystandersPrincipal-Agent FrameworkCost to BystandersCompetitors are not BystandersThe Logic of the CommonsEnvironmental TragediesPropertyParcelsCommunal PropertyTrustBenefits for BystandersMarket PowerMonopoly PowerMonopsony PowerInternational Trade and Trade ProtectionWhat Should Not be for SalePart 5: Management of a Commercial SocietyFinancial InstitutionsFractional Reserve BankingMeasuring EconomiesGross Domestic Product (GDP)Unemployment RateMeasuring the Price LevelFiscal PolicyMonetary PolicyPublic ChoiceCorruptionPart 6: Personal and Business FinanceAccounting BasicsCompound GrowthSaving, Borrowing, and InvestingMarketing FundamentalsInsuranceBreak-Even AnalysisBudgetingFinancial ManagementPart 7: Innovation and EntrepreneurshipKnowledge DiscoveryIt Takes More than IdeasWhat Innovation Looks LikeEntry, Exit, and the Role of ProfitCreative DestructionEntrepreneurs as Resource IntegratorsEntrepreneurship as a ProcessMarkets Don’t ExistCompetitive Advantage - The Dynamics of Remaining ViableThe Big ErrorsThe Entrepreneur and Self-Assessment