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The Commercial Society: Foundations and Challenges in a Global Age (Studies in Ethics and Economics)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.1
EAN: 9780739119945
ISBN: 073911994X
Label: Lexington Books
Manufacturer: Lexington Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 196
Publication Date: January 28, 2007
Publisher: Lexington Books
Studio: Lexington Books
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Guided by the thoughts of Alexis de Tocqueville, Samuel Gregg's The Commercial Society identifies and explores the key foundational elements that must exist within a society for commercial order to take root and flourish. Gregg studies the challenges that have consistently impeded and occasionally undermined commercial order.
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Rating: - A Design Solution for Improving Society
Gregg has written an excellent book. This book, in it essence, is a very lucid scholarly, accurate historical-conceptual study of the causal correlations between the commercial society and what Gregg calls its "foundations", meaning the conditions that favor the commercial society. These include moral foundations (e.g., creativity, practical wisdom, trust, civility), economic foundations and legal-political foundations. But to read this book merely as a descriptive study is to miss the more important ... Read More
Rating: - A powerful case for commercial humanism
Drawing upon ancient and modern sources, "The Commercial Society" is one of those books that remind us that commercial order is about much more than the market economy. Using clear language free of jargon, this prize-winning book (Templeton Enterprise Award 2007) identifies the central moral, legal, and economic foundations of market orders and illustrates why they are indispensable to any society that aspires to the title of free and civilized.
Many have been waiting for such a book for a ... Read More
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