Jukka Kilpi

The Ethics of Bankruptcy (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Have bankrupts committed a mortal wrongdoing? The fundamental ethical problem in bankruptcy is that insolvents have promised to pay their debts but can not keep their promise. "The Ethics of Bankruptcy" examines the morality of bankruptcy. The author explores ethical concerns raised by forgiveness, utilitarianism and distributive justice and the moral aspects of insolvents' contractual, fiduciary, tortious and criminal liability. This is the first comprehensive study that employs the tools of ethics to examine the controversies surrounding insolvency, which makes valuable and sometimes controversial reading in a decade recovering from the Recession. This text compares and contrasts the Humean doctrine of promises as useful conventions with the Kantian view of autonomous agency constituting promissory obligations. Finally, the author assesses recent bankruptcy law reforms, examining British and European modes of dealing with bankruptcy as opposed to American methods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134694433
• Artikelnr.: 42677211

Autorenporträt

Kilpi, Jukka

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' foreword
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Part I The ethical trouble and its makers: a perennial plague
1. The institution and the conflicts behind it Institutional history
Part II. Philosophical fundamentals of credit: should debts be paid?
2. Natural law
consequentialism and contractualism: theories of promising and their shortfalls
3. In search of the ultimate obligation: why a metaethical affair?
4. Ethics founded on autonomy: a modest objectivist foundationalist interpretation of Kant
5. Autonomy and promissory obligations
Part III. Ethical principles of insolvency: should debts always be paid?
6. Going broke
breaking promises
7. Deontological ethics and insolvency
8. What kind of discharge?
Part IV. In defence of dunning: a counterattack
9. Propping up civil liability: contract
breach of trust and tort
10. Punishment
Part V. Applying the principles: a current affair
11. Bankruptcy law reform: an ethical perspective
12. Gearing up
crashing loud: should high-flyers be punished for insolvency?
Part VI. The corporate veil: chador or gauze?
13. Corporate moral personhood
14. Moral responsibility for corporate debts
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index