Deirdre Nansen McCloksey

Deirdre Nansen McCloksey

Business Is As Ethical As It Has Ever Been

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Jun 16, 2016
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McCloskey assesses the state of business ethics in Britain and beyond, for the Financial Times.

"Businesspeople are no worse, and may be better, than in the 1950s. The present danger is from hostile opinion about businesspeople. ... It has fed, for example, a hostility to corporate 'monopolies' selling trainers and beer—which for some reason frighten peo…

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