The Business of Commerce - Examining an Honorable Profession

Chesher and Machan explore the cultural, philosophical, and theological sources of the bad reputation suffered by business in Western culture, sampling prominent opinion, from Plato to Galbraith, in an examination of the fundamental dichotomies of a society that seeks prosperity, yet disdains the processes by which prosperity is achieved.

About the author

Tibor R. Machan is a Hoover research fellow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and holds the R. C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University.

Summary

Examines the view that all business is inherently immoral. The book comes to the conclusion that this view is dangerously wrong. It explores the cultural, philosophical, and theological sources of this idea and examines the fundamental dichotomies of a society that seeks prosperity, yet disdains the processes by which prosperity is achieved.

Product details

• Authors: James Chesher, James E Chesher, James E. Chesher, Tibor R Machan, Tibor R. Machan
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1999
• EAN: 9780817996222
• ISBN: 978-0-8179-9622-2
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Hoover Inst Press Publication; Hoover Inst Press Publication; Hoover Institution Press Publi
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries