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45Social Enterprise: A Global Comparison, ed. Janelle A. Kerlin. Medford, Mass.: Tufts University Press, 2009 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 21 (1): 196-198. 2011.
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14Review Essay: Shawn E. Klein’s (ed.) Steve Jobs and Philosophy: For Those Who Think Different (review)Reason Papers 37 198-208. 2015.
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49A bar too high? On the use of practical wisdom in business ethicsBusiness Ethics 29 (S1): 17-32. 2020.In the business ethics literature, many argue that managerial decision making ought to be improved by more robust ethical concerns. Some see the virtue of “practical wisdom” as the key for improved managerial decision making. However, because of the epistemic limitations confronting decision makers in the face of irreducible market complexity, there is a risk that practical wisdom, employed in the context of day‐to‐day managerial decision making, becomes an impractical concept. Nevertheless, if …Read more
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26Restricting Choices: Decision Making, the Market Society, and the Forgotten EntrepreneurJournal of Business Ethics 156 (2): 293-314. 2019.Basing their claims on findings in the behavioral sciences that illuminate cognitive deficiencies, scholars spanning multiple disciplines argue that certain features of free market capitalist societies threaten human wellbeing, especially insofar as such societies are marked by a proliferation of consumer choices and incessant demands on decision making. This paper thus attempts three things. First, it outlines the criticisms of the expansive freedoms found in free market societies, based on tho…Read more
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33The Rehabilitation of Adam Smith for Catholic Social TeachingJournal of Business Ethics 149 (1): 57-82. 2018.Catholic Social Teaching takes a rather cautious view toward the value of the ideas of Adam Smith, due to his emphasis on negative political and economic liberty. Detractors of Smith within CST point to what they consider to be deficiencies within his works: an impoverished moral anthropology, a lack of concern for the common good, and markets untethered to human needs. Defenders of Smith within CST tend to emphasize the material benefits that derive from Smithian institutions, such as economic …Read more
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51The New (Old) Case for the Ethics of BusinessJournal of Business Ethics 132 (1): 127-146. 2015.In this paper, I argue for the ethics of business based on the way that business activity may embody a vocation to partake in “the Good.” Following a Platonist framework for ethics and recent work on vocations by Robert M. Adams, I argue that understanding the ethics of vocations allows us to avoid the charges that business persons have to do something more for others—often couched in terms of social responsibility, sustainability, or consideration of stakeholders—in order to legitimize their ca…Read more
Gregory Wolcott
John Templeton Foundation
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John Templeton FoundationOther
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |