Obstacles to Achieving the Purpose of Business

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-152
Author(s):  
James R. Otteson
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Good Faith ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
Rational Ignorance ◽  
Purpose Of Business

Chapter 6 looks at several problems businesses can face in the achievement of their proper goal within a market economy. These include Karl Marx’s notions of “alienation,” lying, and exploitation, the extent to which markets and commercial society can conflict with some of our deep-seated and possibly pretheoretic intuitions, and problems associated with asymmetries of knowledge and so-called rational ignorance. This chapter outlines how businesses should deal with such worries and address them in good faith. It also articulates a claim about the proper scope of business’s moral obligations, which will go some way toward helping businesses focus not only on what they can do but on what they should do.

scholarly journals Topical Problems of Small Business Development in Ukraine under Conditions of Improved Tax Service

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Orlova
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Good Faith ◽  
Gradual Transition ◽  
Information Analysis ◽  
Small Business Development ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
Fiscal Pressure ◽  
New System

Small business as a form of business activity is phenomenon of present-day market economy. This is an independent sector of economy that makes goods, services, provides revenue receipts to budgets of all levels. The problem of business development is a pressing challenge for Ukraine as for all countries with market economy. In conditions of implementing Tax Code of Ukraine the topicality of small business development increases, because for stable pumping up of national and local budgets creation of conceptually new system of tax administration (taxes paid by small business) is needed that would provide gradual transition from fiscal pressure to simplified administration procedures using modern methods of information analysis. The article reviews dynamics of budget receipts. Factors reducing fiscal on small business are studied and measures for improvement of tax service for small economic entities - good faith taxpayers are proposed.

Outreach could bring economic rewards to North Korea

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good Faith ◽  
Total Trade ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Korean State ◽  
Economic Motives

Subject The outlook for North Korea's economy. Significance North Korean state media today called for the United States to ease sanctions in recognition of Pyongyang's 'good-faith' steps toward denuclearisation. Stronger sanctions and drought are cited as main causes of North Korean GDP contracting by 3.5% last year, its worst performance since a 6.5% fall amid famine in 1997, according to annual estimates by South Korea’s central bank, published on July 20. Pyongyang’s total trade fell by 15.0%, with exports plunging by 37.2%. Impacts Strong economic motives, intensified by drought's officially acknowledged toll on the economy will sustain Pyongyang's diplomatic outreach. Laws are being adapted to the new realities, but much greater transparency is needed for a market economy to flourish. The economy may have become stronger than the South Korean data acknowledge, but last year's downturn is not in doubt. If reforms are deepened and sanctions eased, North Korea's mineral resources and educated, disciplined workforce will be valuable assets.

The joy of obligation: Human cultural worldviews can enhance the rewards of meeting obligations

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma E. Buchtel
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Confucian Heritage Culture ◽  
Cultural Worldviews

Abstract Is it particularly human to feel coerced into fulfilling moral obligations, or is it particularly human to enjoy them? I argue for the importance of taking into account how culture promotes prosocial behavior, discussing how Confucian heritage culture enhances the satisfaction of meeting one's obligations.

Differentiating between different forms of moral obligations

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajen A. Anderson ◽  
Benjamin C. Ruisch ◽  
David A. Pizarro
Keyword(s):  
Moral Character ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Different Types

Abstract We argue that Tomasello's account overlooks important psychological distinctions between how humans judge different types of moral obligations, such as prescriptive obligations (i.e., what one should do) and proscriptive obligations (i.e., what one should not do). Specifically, evaluating these different types of obligations rests on different psychological inputs and has distinct downstream consequences for judgments of moral character.

Planification: Potential and role in XXI century market economy

2016 ◽  
pp. 63-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Buzgalin ◽  
A. Kolganov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Real Socialism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Planning Institutions

The authors, basing on a critical analysis of the experience of planning during the 20th century in a number of countries of Europe and Asia, and also on the lessons from the economics of "real socialism", set out to substantiate their conclusions on the advisability of "reloading" this institution. The aim is to create planning mechanisms, suited to the new economy, that incorporate forecasting, projections, direct and indirect selective regulation and so forth into integral programs of economic development and that set a vector of development for particular limited spheres of what remains on the whole a market economy. New planning institutions presuppose a supersession of the forms of bureaucratic centralism and a reliance on network forms of organization of the subject and process of planning.

A view at the Russian economic transformation

2018 ◽  
pp. 142-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. F. Baranov ◽  
V. A. Bessonov
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Qualitative Level ◽  
Rate Of Recovery

The transition of the Russian economy from plan to market is considered at a qualitative level. The analysis of economic dynamics in the transformation paradigm is conducted. The main stages of the transition process are discussed. Bonuses and costs due to the transition to market economy are considered. The reasons for the outstripping growth of well-being as compared to the growth of output are discussed. The signs of exhaustion of the potential of factors ensuring an abnormally high rate of recovery and accompanying welfare growth are discussed. The conclusion is made that the transformational recovery has been completed. The Russian economy has moved to the stage of development with relatively low growth rates of output and welfare, typical for stable (nontransition) economies.

Phase Model of Market Economy

2005 ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Yegorenkov ◽  
E. Kazakova ◽  
M. Starodubtseva
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Imperfect Competition ◽  
Phase Model ◽  
Status Change ◽  
Means Of Production

The phase model of market economy is suggested in the article. It is formalized in the cubical equation The equation takes into account the imperfections of competition and the fact that consumer goods are produced with the help of means of production. Transitions from the imperfect competition to the perfect one and visa versa yield qualitative status change of market economy.

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