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Human Goods in Ethical Business

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The Good and the Economical

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Life in companies is not habitually conducive to reflection. Managers and decision-makers need their time, or so they think, for action and not for philosophy or reflection. In some cases, reflection can even be suspect: if you have time to think, you have nothing to do.

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  1. Michael Shanks
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  1. Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Gerberstraße 26, D-30169, Hannover, Germany

    Peter Koslowski

  2. Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo, 186, Japan

    Yuichi Shionoya

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Shanks, M. (1993). Human Goods in Ethical Business. In: Koslowski, P., Shionoya, Y. (eds) The Good and the Economical. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78584-9_8

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