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Ponte Academic Journal
Feb 2017, Volume 73, Issue 2

ETHICS, ECONOMY AND CAPITALISM IN EASTERN EUROPE

Author(s): Octavian Gruioniu

J. Ponte - Feb 2017 - Volume 73 - Issue 2
doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2017.2.16



Abstract:
If in a previous study, entitled On Ethics, Economy and Capitalism. An Aristotelian Approach, the emphasis was laid, from an Aristotelian perspective, on some general aspects of the controversial relationship between capitalist economy and morality, in the present article we aim at highlighting the features and at the same time the ethical limits of the capitalist economic model built in the last two-three decades in the former socialist states from eastern and south-eastern Europe. In the second part of our analysis, we will try to identify some major directions of action by which business in Eastern European capitalist states could be better adjusted to the ethical dimension, becoming more and more a place of morality and justice for all actors it contains.
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