Doing the Right Thing : : a Value Based Economy / / Arjo Klamer.

• VerfasserIn: Klamer, Arjo,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Ubiquity Press,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)

"This book is for all those who are seeking a human perspective on economic and organizational processes. It lays the foundations for a value based approach to the economy. The key questions are: "What is important to you or your organization?" "What is this action or that organi...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• part I: Framing and raising awareness
• chapter 1. Doing the right thing at home; in the end it is the culture that matters
• chapter 2. Different ways of making sense of culture in relationship to the economy
• chapter 3. Doing the right thing is a matter of realizing values
• chpater 4. Phronesis is the virtue in making values real
• part II: The conceptual framework
• chapter 5. About values
• chapter 6. To realize values we need to procure goods, the most important of which are shared
• chapter 7. The goods to strive for are our ideals
• chapter 8. The sources for doing the right thing; about richness and poverty
• chapter 9. Realizing values in five different spheres: involving others
• chapter 10A. An exploration of the five spheres: logic, rhetoric, values and relationships. The oikos and the social and cultural spheres first
• chapter 10B. The market and governmental spheres, and the spillovers, overlaps among the five spheres
• chapter 11. So what?
• Bibliography
• Index.