Bribery,consent and prima facie duty: A rejoinder to Carson

Responding to my paper Bribery Tom Carson argues that bribe takers violate promisory obligations in a wider range of cases than I acknowledge and insists that bribe taking is prima facie wrong in all contexts. I argue that he is wrong on both counts. Michael Philips is a Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. Recent papers by him have appeared in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophical Studies, Nous, Law and Philosophy, The Journal of Business Ethics, and several other journals. He is currently at work an a book in moral theory.     

Salaries and promotion opportunities in the English banking industry, 1890–1936: a rejoinder

The article is a rejoinder to Andrew J. Seltzer's article, published in Business History in August 2010, which critiqued an article published in May 2008 on the topic of clerical salaries in London, 1870–1914. It examines trends in salaries and promotions of branch clerks at the London, County and Westminster Bank and at the National Provincial Bank, and focuses on the London area for the period 1880–1913. It argues that salaries increased between 1880 and 1895 and then declined from 1895 to 1913. Adjusting for tenure and inflation, salaries were approximately at the same level in 1913 as they were in 1880. It also examines the relationship between tenure and salary, linking both to the rise of internal labour markets in Britain's large retail banks.     

安乐生活

“即便是家徒四壁，但只要生起炉火。再放上一张安乐椅，这个家就是有灵魂的。”狄更斯在《荒凉山庄》中这样写道。     

农村中小企业发展呼唤金融制度创新

1996年以后,我国农村中小企业发展速度明显趋缓,吸纳农村剩余劳动力的数量也明显下降,其原因主要是长期以来的“金融抑制”政策所造成的。因此依据发展经济学中的“金融抑制和金融深化”理论和我国农村“金融抑制”的具体表现,制定放开民间金融、扩大农村金融市场和推行农村利率市场化等具体的“金融深化”措施,以保证我国农村中小企业对资本的需求。     

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1. ABN AMRO私人企业投资公司（ABN AMRO Private Equity,AAPE）公司网址：www.abnequity.com公司概况：ABN AMRO 私人企业投资公司（AAPE）是美国中西部具有领导地位的风险投资公司之一。总部设在芝加哥,旗下拥有超过3亿美元的资金。AAPE单独向北美地区私人企业的投资就接近     

A Miracle over A Decadef Wuxi Sunmart

Miracle started A decade ago, Wuxi Sunmart was just no name.At that time, few people noticed Jiangsu Snow Leopard Atomi-zation Pot Industry Limited Company, which was established in early 1998, as it was a small workshop with the registered capital of only RMB 1.6 million.And that is where Wuxi Sunmart's miracle began.     

闲话甲方乙方

前几天，突然收到一个平时很好接触的年青同事的短信，对正在合作的某一客户人员的“大爷”态度颇为不忿，被我好言劝说才平静下来。这是一个广告人天天都要面对的问题，作为服务方，你的工作如何赢得客户的尊重和认可、生活在一个和谐的合作关系里，对广告人的身心健康至关重要。     

HOW A UNIQUE CULTURE PROPOSITION BECAME A USP

How can you transform the way you do things into a compelling sales proposition? Zurich Insurance has created a Unique Culture Proposition which may well be its Unique Selling Point. Adam Kingl tells the story.     

A Miracle over A Decade:Wuxi Sunmart

Miracle started A decade ago, Wuxi Sunmart was just no name. At that time, few people noticed Jiangsu Snow Leopard Atomization Pot Industry Limited Company, which was established in early 1998, as it was a small workshop with the registered capital of only RMB 1.6 million. And that is where Wuxi Sunmart's miracle began.With ten years of development, Wuxi Sunmart Science and Technology Company Ltd now has a total asset of RMB 4 billion, with the annual     

A NON-TRADABLE WAGE GOOD IN A RICARDIAN MODEL

An increasing cost in the provision of a non-tradable wage good presents an obstacle to accumulation which cannot be bypassed through imports. An alternative solution involves channeling the landlords' rental income into subsidizing the production of the wage good. Simulation of the model yields results which suggest that this can postpone the arrival of the stationary state, albeit temporarily. The model seems to provide a framework for interpreting the housing policies of some small but populous East Asian countries. This could shed light on the role played by the government of those countries in fostering capital accumulation by dampening wage-cost increases.     

A Genealogy of Business Ethics: A Nietzschean Perspective

This article approaches the field of business ethics from a Nietzschean vantage point, which means explaining the weakness of the field by means of providing an etiological account of the values esteemed by the decadent business ethicists therein. I argue that such business ethicists have wandered from their immanent philosophical ground to act as scientists, businesspersons, and preaching-moralists as a way of evading their human self-contradictions. In actuality, this fleeing exacerbates them into a sickness of self-idolatry and self-loathing. I bring in Nietzsche’s approach to the value of truth and his ascetic priest figure to get to the origin of this problem. Moreover, I attend throughout to delimiting the field of business ethics as that branch of ethics that can be taught in business schools. Indeed, the article itself is a movement in this direction, being inherently and intentionally philosophical.