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I have cross-disciplinary expertise (ethics and moral philosophy, philosophical anthropology and moral psychology), and my work focuses on personalist virtue ethics, moral human development, and the links between ethics and economics; I am a person who loves nature and animals, and I’m thrilled to do good work. I was educated and worked internationally, with academic degrees in different Europe countries and the USA, and 30 years of work and academic experience in Europe, the USA, and SE Asia. I live with my family near London, U.K.. I am passionate about enabling a more sustainable society that however remains rooted in human dignity and avoids instrumentalizing the person


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The Challenges of Capitalism for Virtue Ethics and the Common Good: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

By Kleio Akrivou (editor), Alejo Jose G Sison (editor),

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This volume is a collection of coherent albeit independently standing chapters written by different authors and editors. Each chapter takes…

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The books I picked & why

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Kleio Akrivou Why did I love this book?

It attempts an evaluation of capitalism from within ethics and various disciplines.

Although universal moral rules in capitalism have clear difficulties in implementation, this challenge pushes us to reflect on the moral inadequacy of pragmatist/utilitarian ways of responding to ethics in capitalism, as they are myopic. The book suggests a universal ethic of duty for dignity is better ethics, even if it is still assuming a global universal moral rule.

By Norman Bowie,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Business Ethics in the 21st Century as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

This work provides a critical look at business practice in the early 21st century and suggests changes that are both practical and normatively superior. Several chapters present a reflection on business ethics from a societal or macro-organizational point of view. It makes a case for the economic and moral superiority of the sustainability capitalism of the European Union over the finance-based model of the United States. Most major themes in business ethics are covered and some new ones are introduced, including the topic of the right way to teach business ethics. The general approach adopted in this volume is Kantian.…


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Kleio Akrivou Why did I love this book?

An admirably internally coherent book with a rigorous and philosophically informed proposal to restore ethical business premised on altruism as an underlying force of agency. 

It also supports the idea that more classical (i.e Aristotle’s virtue ethics) rather than the modern ethics (utility, duty, social contract, etc.) foundations are stronger.

By Ronald Duska, Norman E. Bowie (editor), Patricia H. Werhane (editor)

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Contemporary Reflections on Business Ethics as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Over 30 years Ronald F. Duska has established himself as one of the leading scholars in business ethics. This book presents Duska's articles the years on ethics, business ethics, teaching ethics, agency theory, postmodernism, employee rights, and ethics in accounting and the financial services industry. These reflect his underlying philosophical concerns and their application to real-world challenges - a method that might be called an Aristotelian common-sense approach to ethical decision making.


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Kleio Akrivou Why did I love this book?

I love the clarity and the bold historically informed orientation, and that the proposal on how to act for the common good takes ideas from different virtue ethics around the world (from Aristotle’s European to Asian ones in Confucius, Watzusian ethics in Japan, etc.).

They are so different from how current politics act with only power in mind. This book is sensitive to local insights and has strong realist basis for global ethics for business. 

By Daryl Koehn,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Local Insights, Global Ethics for Business as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

This book evaluates strategies for managing ethical conflict. Macro-approaches that attribute select values to entire peoples and claim supremacy for these values are suspect. A micro-approach, focusing on the ethics of individual thinkers, is better. The study uses the ethics of Confucius and Tetsuro Watsuji to derive a process-based universal ethic that respects local differences yet is not relativistic.


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Kleio Akrivou Why did I love this book?

I like that the economic advantages of capitalism have not been underestimated, but also that its social, economic failures (corruption, exclusion/poverty, harmfulness and hubristic behaviours, impersonalism, and environmental degradation).

A solution offered is balancing justice and productivity, is trying to fix capitalism without alienating its elites. 

By John Douglas Bishop (editor),

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Ethics and Capitalism as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Despite the great economic advantage of capitalism - that it is an efficient system of production and distribution - capitalist societies struggle with its by-products of poverty, exclusion, corruption, and environmental destruction. The essays in "Ethics and Capitalism" address the question of ensuring ethical and just societies within a capitalist system without sacrificing productivity. The introductory essay is a guide to the issues in the emerging field of ethics and capitalism, and refers to recent contributions from several disciplines. The collection as a whole evaluates the morality of capitalism by looking at its foundation in property theory, its relationship to…


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Kleio Akrivou Why did I love this book?

A brilliant short history of capitalism, and how it all evolved until we got to today’s late or hyper-capitalism.

I love the way the book draws from social and economic history, to show how economic, social, and personal relations and ways of life have been weakened is something that starts from the 14th century but also evolved locally as much as in more universal ways.

By Jurgen Kocka,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Capitalism as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization, to today's globalized financial capitalism, Jurgen Kocka offers an unmatched account of capitalism, one that weighs its great achievements against its great costs, crises, and failures. Based on intensive research, the book puts the rise of capitalist economies in social, political, and cultural context, and shows how their…


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The Challenges of Capitalism for Virtue Ethics and the Common Good: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

By Kleio Akrivou (editor), Alejo Jose G Sison (editor),

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What is my book about?

This volume is a collection of coherent albeit independently standing chapters written by different authors and editors. Each chapter takes an angle on how capitalism weakened old wisdom in economics and how to act well in social life and the natural world; and its reduction of who we are and what good practical reason and morally developed personal action are about.

The book opens possibilities for a more reflected stance on being, and our action in the economy, society, and one another aiming to enable reflection on how to reopen a possibility for personal and wider flourishing which however, are rooted in our relational and spiritual dimensions. It is a cross-disciplinary and historically informed work reflecting on the common good and a personalist virtue ethics. 

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