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1 online resource |
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Capitalist thought: studies in philosophy, politics, and economics |
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Capitalist thought: studies in philosophy, politics, and economics.
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Capitalism and commerce in novels and plays / Edward W. Younkins -- Epic and the medium of exchange / Frederick Turner -- The cost of war and the profits of peace in Aristophanes' Acharnians / Troy Earl Camplin -- A time for bonding : commerce, love, and law in The Merchant of Venice / Allen Mendenhall -- Human action : pursuing happiness inside and outside the happy valley / Felix R. Livingston -- The rime of the neoclassical economist : the economist's failure at spreading the passion of capitalism / Derek K. Yonai -- Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South : industrial energy versus "the idiocies of rural life" / Paul A. Cantor -- Where have you gone, Horatio Alger : a long gone literary hero and the bourgeois virtues / Amy Willis -- Crony capitalism in The Gilded Age by Twain and Warner and its relevance for today / Michelle Albert Vachris -- Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People / Cynthia Hunter -- William Dean Howells' work ethic in The Rise of Silas Lapham / Zennure Köseman -- Capitalism contra ethics : William Dean Howells and the moral ambivalence of business / Michael Spindler -- The Panic of '93 : the literary response / Stephen Cox -- Heroism redefined : integrating mind and emotion in Calumet "K" / Virginia Murr -- Women's work : Edna Ferber, Emma McChesney, and the portrait of the American businesswoman / Sarah Skwire -- The Great Gatsby : a commentary on the wealthy in America of the 1920s / Gary Wolfram -- Steinbeck's perspectives on capitalism : from The Grapes of Wrath to East of Eden / Mimi Reisel Gladstein -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, and libertarianism / Walter E. Block -- The freedom gradient in Ayn Rand's novels / Andrew Bernstein -- Identity, professional ethics, and substantive style in The Fountainhead / William Kline -- Business in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged / Edward W. Younkins -- Business as an agent of human progress in Time Will Run Back, Methuselah's Children, and The Transhumanist Wager / Gennady Stolyarov II -- Rabbit in the showroom : healthy, wealthy, and no place left to run / Carl S. Horner -- Roger Rueff's Hospitality Suite / Theodore N. Pauls -- Writing, money, markets, slavery, and unintended consequences at the beginning of history : Samuel R. Delany's return to Nevèrÿon / Jeff Riggenbach -- "We do not sow" : the economics and politics of A Song of Ice and Fire / Matthew McCaffrey and Carmen Elena Dorobăt -- Harry Potter and the invisible hand ; or, the virtue of business that is not serious / Heather King -- Race, rules, and real estate in August Wilson's Radio Golf / Susan Love Brown |
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This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical, political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives that have been found in American society over time |
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Commerce -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Free enterprise -- Moral and ethical aspects
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Commerce -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Free enterprise -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Electronic book
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Younkins, Edward W. (Edward Wayne), 1948- editor.
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9781498519304 |
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149851930X |
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