Revisiting Some Building Blocks of Contemporary Capitalism that Center Selfishness
摘要
Once the insight is reached that the economic principles on which capitalism is based are by no means laws of nature, but rather mainly the result of value choices that have been made as of the fifteenth to sixteenth century (cf. Chap. 1 ), a logical step is to subject some of the building blocks of the prevailing, capitalist socio-economic order to an ethical examination.