Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments in Vanity Fair Lessons in Business Ethics from Becky Sharp /

According to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise: a vain person is much more likely than a person with low self-esteem to accomplish great things. Problematic as it may be from a moral perspective, vanity makes a person more likely to succeed in business, politics and other public p...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Slegers, Rosa (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2018.
Σειρά:Issues in Business Ethics, 49
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction
  • A profile of Becky Sharp
  • Chapter 1 - To be quiet and very much interested
  • Chapter 2 - Educating the martial spirit
  • Chapter 3 - Ambition, the poor man's son, and the poor man's daughter
  • Chapter 4 - The self-estimation and self-command of a mighty conqueror
  • Chapter 5 - Partial and impartial spectators in Vanity Fair
  • Chapter 6 - An industrious knave becomes respectable
  • Conclusion.