The Making of National Money or Companion to Business Ethics

The Making of National Money: Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective

Author: Eric Helleiner

Why should each country have its own exclusive currency? Eric Helleiner offers a fascinating and unique perspective on this question in his accessible history of the origins of national money.

Our contemporary understandings of national currency are, Helleiner shows, surprisingly recent. Based on standardized technologies of production and extraction, territorially exclusive national currencies emerged for the first time only during the nineteenth century. This major change involved a narrow definition of legal tender and the exclusion of tokens of value issued outside the national territory. "Territorial currencies" rapidly became bound up with the rise of national markets, and money reflected basic questions of national identity and self-presentation: In what way should money be managed to serve national goals? Whose pictures should go on the banknotes?

Helleiner draws out the potent implications of this largely unknown history for today's context. Territorial currencies face challenges from many monetary innovations-the creation of the euro, dollarization, the spread of local currencies, and the prospect of privately issued electronic currencies. While these challenges are dramatic, the author argues that their significance should not be overstated. Even in their short historical life, territorial currencies have never been as dominant as conventional wisdom suggests. The future of this kind of currency, Helleiner contends, depends on political struggles across the globe, struggles that echo those at the birth of national money.

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Companion to Business Ethics

Author: Robert Fredrick

In a series of articles specifically commossioned for this volume, some of today's most distinguished business ethicists survey the main areas of interest and concern in the field of business ethics.
Sections of the book cover topics such as the often easy relation between business ethics and capatalism, the link between business ethics and ethical theory, how ethics applies to specific problems in the business world, the connection between business ethics and related academic disciplines, and the practice of business ethics in modern corporations.

• Includes extensive, accessible discussion of all of the main areas of interest and debate in business ethics.

• Features all original contributions by distinguished authors in business ethics.

• Includes an annotated table of contents, bibliographies of the relevant literature and a list of internet sources of material on business ethics.

• Perfect, comprehensive book for use in business ethics courses.

Table of Contents:

	List of Contributors
	Preface
1	A Kantian approach to business ethics	3
2	Utilitarianism and business ethics	17
3	Business ethics and virtue	30
4	Social contract approaches to business ethics: bridging the "is-ought" gap	38
5	Business ethics and the pragmatic attitude	56
6	An outline of ethical relativism and ethical absolutism	65
7	Feminist theory and business ethics	81
8	Business ethics in a free society	88
9	Nature and business ethics	100
10	Toward new directions in business ethics: some pragmatic pathways	112
11	Business ethics: pragmatism and postmodernism	128
12	Ethics in management	141
13	Finance ethics	153
14	Ethics in the public accounting profession	164
15	Marketing ethics	178
16	Law, ethics, and managerial judgment	194
17	Business ethics and economics	207
18	Business ethics and the social sciences	218
19	International business ethics	233
20	Corporate moral agency	243
21	Employee rights	257
22	Business ethics and work: questions for the twenty-first century	269
23	Business's environmental responsibility	280
24	Business ethics and religion	290
25	Social responsibility and business ethics	303
26	Business ethics and the origins of contemporary capitalism: economics and ethics in the work of Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer	325
27	A brief history of American business ethics	342
28	Business ethics in Europe: a tale of two efforts	353
29	Ethics and the regulatory environment	366
30	A passport for the corporate code: from Borg Warner to the Caux Principles	374
31	Investigations and due process	386
32	Ethics and corporate leadership	399
	Bibliography	409
App. A	Business Ethics: Electronic Resources	423
App. B	Domestic and International Business Ethics Organizations	425
	Index	447