Finance Ethics: The Rationality of Virtue

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Finance Ethics is not just a moral critique of the finance paradigm, arguing that self-interested profit making must be constrained by ethics. Rather, it is a critique from within that paradigm, in which truth becomes a rational mechanism to enforce contracts, and virtuous behavior is shown to make the most business sense.

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...must be commended for choosing to approach the subject of finance ethics from 'inside the paradigm' for electing to do so in connection with the realities of financial and global markets... Dobson's work sets a challenge for other writers and teachers dealing with ethics in economics, business and finance to define the subject they are dealing with and to articulate ethics from inside theory and practice.... -- Frank McHugh * Finance and Bien Commun / Common Good *
The first book ever to integrate business ethics with financial economics . . . * Sbe Newsletter *

...must be commended for choosing to approach the subject of finance ethics from 'inside the paradigm' for electing to do so in connection with the realities of financial and global markets...

Dobson's work sets a challenge for other writers and teachers dealing with ethics in economics, business and finance to define the subject they are dealing with and to articulate ethics from inside theory and practice.

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John Dobson is associate professor of finance at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.