The evolution of modern capitalist society is increasingly being marked by an undeniable and consistent tension between pure economic and ethical ways of valuing and acting. This book is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary contribution that challenges the assumptions of capitalist business...

Introduction / Kleio Akrivou -- Part I the common good in history: virtue epistemology as knowledge foundation for the relationships between institutions, society and person(s) -- 1. The merchant and the common good: social paradigms and the state's influence in western history / Agustín...

Educating the professional (designer) includes communicating the prescriptive rationality which carefully guides the design process. This rationality is bounded, and hence tutors and students must be open to the need to satisfice for a variety of possible and permissible design solutions,...