Tag archive for ‘Ethics’
The Ethics of Capitalism
After a few quite hard weeks of work the new issue of Social Europe Journal is finally out, addressing the ethical foundations of capitalism and society. I hope you enjoy your reading and make sure you leave your thoughts on the articles on our website here. You can also read the newsletter announcing this issue [...]
Capitalism and Christian Ethics
I. As recently as 2003, in a – purportedly critical – introduction to neoliberalism, we read the following: “The left/socialist and church-based critiques of neoliberalism are in agreement that the market encourages a ‘destructive egoism’. Resistant to learning, the churches cultivate the idea of the fundamentally good, socially responsible individual, and look with biblical aversion [...]
The Ethics of Capitalism
In the last couple of years, the world economy has been rocked by uncontrollable increases in agricultural commodities worldwide, the rollercoaster ride of crude oil prices and the global credit crunch that has led to the global economic crisis, plunging into negative growth even the most robust economies. The EU economy has not been shielded [...]
Morality and Capitalism in Sociological Perspective
Whether neoliberals can claim that their form of free-market capitalism is a moral force is debatable (which from a deontological viewpoint is very debatable), but they certainly claim it is superior to all other forms capitalism as well as socialism. This stands in contrast to social democratic and Christian democratic conceptions of capitalism which regard [...]
Capitalism and Ethical Life
In the park across the road the boys hang out on the benches. Throughout the day and long into the night, when the call comes in one will cycle off up the road and return with the small wrap. It’s a just in time, overheads free, networked, post post-fordist economy of primitive accumulation. A life [...]
Ethics, Capitalism and the Managerial Aristocracy
We are all capitalists, in the sense that we may point to one thing or another and call it ‘mine’. The Marxist notion that ‘private property is theft’ is all but dead outside of the most extreme and chronically naive positions. It is often said that communitarian or communist ideology which espoused the principle of [...]
