Competition, Trust, and Cooperation

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Basic Considerations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Trust as a Virtue

      • Yuichi Shionoya

      Pages 3-19

   3. Trust and Sympathy in the Social and Market Order

      • Kiichiro Yagi

      Pages 20-41

   4. Evaluating Trust, Competition and Cooperation

      • Tony Lawson

      Pages 42-76

   5. Ethics in Exchange and Reciprocity

      • Makoto Nishibe

      Pages 77-95

3. Historical and Comparative Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Contemporary Relevance of the Idea of ‘Sympathy’ in Adam Smith

      • Hideo Tanaka

      Pages 99-111

   3. Trust and Cooperation in German Romanticism: Adam Müller’s Position in the History of Socio-Economic Thought

      • Tetsushi Harada

      Pages 112-125

   4. Evolution, Competition, and Cooperation from a Socio-Philosophical Viewpoint

      • Naoshi Yamawaki

      Pages 126-142

   5. The Pitfall of Modern Japan

      • Shiro Kohsaka

      Pages 143-158

   6. Confucianism in the Context of Economic Crisis in Korea

      • Sangki Kim, Bong Joon Yoon

      Pages 159-176

4. Modern Economic and Political Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. The Shareholder Value Principle and the Purpose of the Firm

      • Peter Koslowski

      Pages 179-209

   3. (Un)ethical Behavior in Business: A Reward-Punishment Probability Framework

      • A. N. M. Waheeduzzaman

      Pages 210-226

   4. Redistribution and Recognition: Normative Theories and the Political Economy of Welfare States

      • Toru Yamamori

      Pages 227-243

5. Back Matter

   Pages 245-252

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It was at the fifth SEEP-Conference on Economic Ethics and philosophy in autumn 1997 that the organizational work of the seventh conference in 1999 was entrusted to the editors of this volume. Prof. Peter Koslowski, series editor of The Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy, SEEP, expressed the hope that the SEEP-Conference be held in the Far-East for the fist time would bring a new comparative aspect to economic ethics and philosophy. Further, the agenda of economic ethics seemed to increase its significance also in Japan and other Asian countries especially due to the spread of corruption in the government and business under the financial crisis that attacked these nations in the late 1990s. Though we chose "Com­ petition, Trust, and Cooperation" as the general theme of the conference, this should include the collusion, distrust, and corruption as the opposite side of the medal. The conference was held on March 10-12, 1999 at the Kansai Seminar House of the Nippon Christian Academy, Kyoto, Japan. Fourteen papers were submitted to the conference. In addition to twelve papers that are printed in this volume, Prof. Ruisheng Wang (Capital Normal University, Beijing) read his paper on ethical problems in the context of Asian financial crisis and Prof. Agnar Sandmo (Norwegian School of Economics and Busi­ ness Administration) did the same by his paper on societal aspect of the competition promotion policy.

• Adam Smith
• Confucianism
• Economic Ethics
• Moral
• Recognition
• Sympathy
• Trust
• ethics

• Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

  Yuichi Shionoya

• Faculty of Economics Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku Kyoto, Japan

  Kiichiro Yagi

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