Moral Firms?
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Abstract Building a new political economy requires transforming our markets, institutions, and policy regulatory regimes. In this essay, I argue that it also the purpose of firm: from singular focus on maximizing financial returns to recognition firms exist support human flourishing, with profits merely means an end. suggest transformation is already under way indeed may help fundamental change in wider society, but significant shifts law, policy, social normative context are almost certainly essential if model become norm.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Daedalus
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1548-6192', '0011-5266']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01979