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Ethicmentality - Ethics in Capitalist Economy, Business, and Society

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Authors:
  1. Michela Betta

    1. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Focuses on practical ethical behavior in today’s economy, business, and society
  • Shows the potential of constructive critique from economic, business, and society perspectives
  • Cutting-edge discussion of issues related to ethics and its position in business and society
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 45)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Capitalism and Capital

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. The Contradictions of Capitalism: A Schumpeterian Analysis

      • Michela Betta
      Pages 5-23

    3. Governmentality and the Economy: A Foucauldian Perspective

      • Michela Betta
      Pages 25-41

    4. The Inequality of Capital: An Economic Critique

      • Michela Betta
      Pages 43-59

  3. Society and Business

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-63
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    2. The Importance of Money

      • Michela Betta
      Pages 65-77

    3. Three Case Studies: Australian HIH, American Enron, and Global Lehman Brothers

      • Michela Betta
      Pages 79-97

    4. The Rise of the Managers

      • Michela Betta
      Pages 99-117

  4. Ethical Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-121
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    2. Ethical Capital

      • Michela Betta
      Pages 123-137

    3. Entrepreneurial Ethics

      • Michela Betta
      Pages 139-152

    4. Aristotle and Business Ethics

      • Michela Betta
      Pages 153-169

    5. Ethicmentality

      • Michela Betta
      Pages 171-181
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About this book

Ethicmentality is an innovative book. It blends ethics with mentality to capture the interdependence of ethical life and social life creatively. The book is also innovative because of the way this interdependence is explored. By focusing on practical ethical behavior in today’s economy, business, and society, Michela Betta has advanced an understanding of ethics freed from the burden of moral theory. By introducing a new type of analysis this book also contributes to methodological innovation. Familiar issues are revisited through the notion of ethicmentality. Capitalist economy is presented in terms of a mentality embedded in society, culture, and politics. Government is revealed as mentality about how to govern economically through market freedom rather than human rights. The rise of the financial economy is described as challenging the traditional capitalist mentality of equal opportunities. A money mentality around debts and owing is perceived as having replaced credit and owning, and the rise of corporation managers as having destroyed the old mentality of ownership. Ethicmentality shows the potential of constructive critique from economic, business, and society perspectives. It also breaches traditional limits by developing the idea of ethical capital and entrepreneurial ethics. Ethical thinking is infused with the Aristotelian notion of virtues and moderation to reflect about modern work. Ethicmentality helps us see the complexity of social and personal life. Given the pervasive nature of mentality and ethics’ focus on individual deliberation, ethicmentality represents their productive combination, a new blend for ethical and social analysis. 

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“Ethicmentality could be considered as an ambitious book, written by an author who is fully and variously engaged in applied ethics. … It provides a well-conducted analysis of the mechanisms of capitalism and of the Great Financial Crisis. The case-studies are excellent … . The account of literature in business ethics is also wide and useful to the reader. … the smoothness of Betta’s language and her argumentative clarity are remarkable.” (Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Vol. 13 (1), 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    Michela Betta

About the author

Michela Betta is a teacher, researcher, theorist, and writer. She studied philosophy and social sciences in Milan and Frankfurt, and completed her doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt. She has held academic positions in Germany and Australia where she currently lives and is a senior academic at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne). She is interested in ethics in relation to a variety of topics spanning organisation, management, business, education, law, and science. She has published on a variety of topics in scholarly journals and books associated with her research interests. Michela has also published three collections of short stories with the intention of exploring ethical thinking through literary media.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethicmentality - Ethics in Capitalist Economy, Business, and Society

  • Authors: Michela Betta

  • Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7590-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7588-5Published: 13 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1389-2Published: 27 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7590-8Published: 06 May 2016

  • Series ISSN: 0925-6733

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 181

  • Topics: Ethics, Business Ethics

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