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Were capitalists interested only in profit in the 19th century? An example of Jan Gottlieb Bloch
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
The social class which was the spiritus movens of rapid economic transformation in the lands of the Kingdom of Poland in the nineteenth century was the bourgeoisie. In the public sphere, there is still a strong conviction ...
A brief history of Business Ethics here and now
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
The article is a review of issues connected with business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the last 20 years. Two decades have passed since the Sixth Polish Philosophical Congress took place in Toruń, ...
The labor issue in the USA in the first half of the 20th century. The contribution of the Catholic Church to its solution
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
The stance of the Catholic Church in the United States of America on the problems related to workers’ wages is an interesting issue from the point of view of the ethics of economic life and the development of Catholic ...
Moral and ethical aspects of the Polish transition from communism in the enunciations of the Polish Episcopate
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
The Polish Episcopate critically assessed the social and economic situation in Poland in the period of the transition from communism to democracy and a freemarket economy. Privatisation led to production being stopped and ...
Remarks on the genesis of UNRRA. Negotiations between the Great Powers and selected treaty provisions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
As a conceptual framework, UNRRA referred to one of the four freedoms (freedom from want) mentioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech given in Congress on January 6, 1946. In the first section, the article presents early ...
Dialogue, ethics, economy. The application of dialogue in management (in the context of business ethics in the German-speaking area)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
The article names the conditions that a conversation has to fulfill in order to become a dialogue. The author undertakes to present the philosophy and ethics of dialogue, which were established based on the concept of ...
The meritocracy or “responsibility elite”? An evangelical approach to the issue of social elites
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
The notion of meritocracy is among the keywords used to describe the contemporary world. Increasingly, it has become a central concept of an order with globalization and the impact of free-market philosophy on society and ...
The scope of responsibility of employers towards workers’ families in the Second Republic of Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
The aim of this article is the presentation of the scope of responsibility of employers towards workers’ families in Poland in the interwar period. The article also shows how those duties were fulfilled. This issue appeared ...
Reputation and its measurement. An institutional approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
The article deals with the issue of identifying and measuring institutions. As an example, reputation was taken into consideration. The analysis leads to the conclusion that reputation could be treated as an institution ...
The economic ethics of Calvinism. The reconciliation of piety and wealth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
The doctrine of predestination in the Lutheran and Calvinist theology, along with the assumption of a radical separation of nature and grace as well as the material and spiritual realm, had a significant impact on social ...