Titlebook: Ethical Reflections on the Financial Crisis 2007/2008; Making Use of Smith, Wilfried Ver Eecke Book 2013 The Author(s) 2013 Adam Smith.Busi

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Book 2013 Smith solid arguments for the new free market economy, capitalism, but also arguments for a  role for the government in the case of public goods (roads) and of merit goods (education, control of banking). Where the provision of public goods requires that the government respect consumer sovereignty

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Introduction,y. I quote Adam Smith’s argument for the necessity of governmental oversight of banking. We contrast this to Greenspan’s naive belief in self-regulation of the banking system. We document Greenspan’s opposition to banking regulation.

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Introduction, fact that notwithstanding Adam Smith’s defense of the free market, he also points to a role for the government in promoting a well-functioning economy. I quote Adam Smith’s argument for the necessity of governmental oversight of banking. We contrast this to Greenspan’s naive belief in self-regulati

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Adam Smith and the Free Market, the pin-factory. Smith attributes this great productivity to the division of labor which allows workers to specialize and which encourages them, out of self-interest, to look for machines to help in their work. On the demand side, the new economy relies on the human tendency to barter where self-in

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Business Ethics and Eleven Categories of Merit Goods,seful in the vocabulary of business ethics. Musgrave defines merit goods as goods that are so meritorious that the government has the right to interfere with consumer preferences. Thus the government can subsidize education and even make it obligatory. Musgrave (and I agree) stresses the fact that t