Marvin T. Brown teaches business and organizational ethics in the Philosophy department at the University of San Francisco and in the Organizational Systems program at Saybrook University in San Francisco. His previous books include Working Ethics (1990), The Ethical Process (2003), and Corporate Integrity (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
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Preface
1. Introduction: creating a just and sustainable economy
Part I. Creating a New Economic Framework: 2. Adam Smith's silence and an economics of property
3. Reclaiming the notions of provision and family
4. Making provisions in a dangerous world
Part II. The Civic Option: 5. From property relations to civic relations
6. Society, civil society and the market
7. Restoring reciprocity
8. Civic norms and market competition
Part III. A Civic View of Labor, Land, and Money: 9. Labor: employment as engagement
10. Land: ownership as a concession
11. Money: commodity or credit
Part IV. Civilizing Economic Systems: 12. A world of systems
13. Imagining stakeholder economy
14. The ethics of economic systems
15. Changing systems of provision
Part V. A Civic Agenda: 16. The civic obligations of corporations: 17. Creating circumstances for civic conversations
Appendix: free enterprise and the economics of slavery
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