Economy and Ethics
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
As commemorative reference we are reproducing the paper written by Professor Perpiñá that appeared as the first article in the first number of RFS, 60 years ago. This article dealt with a subject described then as highly topical. It is astonishing to verify that it still is. Using an analytical sociological approach, the author distinguishes three main ways of acting in social life: the first one is characterised by the use of force in social relationships; the second one is based on generosity and philanthropy; the third one, the balance between the two previous ways, would be based on exchange relationships, known as business and understood as “the exchange of mercies”. The three of them are economic ways of acting, but ethics is absent in the first and the second one can not be compulsory for the average mortal. It is in the practice of exchange based on the principle of trade where “the economic life gets closer to the postulates of the healthy economy”.
Downloads
Article Details
The authors acknowledge that the Revista de Fomento Social assumes as its own the intellectual property rights over their work and grant the journal the permissions of distribution and public communication of the same established in the Berlin, Bethesda and Budapest declarations; for this reason they accept that the work presented be distributed in open access, protecting the copyright under a "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativeWorks 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) license.
You may copy, use, disseminate, transmit and publicly display provided that:
Cite the authorship of the work, the publication in Revista de Fomento Social, issue, year and the pages where you found the information.
No commercial benefit may be obtained.
No derivative works may be made for commercial purposes that are not authorized by the journal.
Authors are encouraged to disseminate the article electronically (Revista de Fomento Social, number, year, pagination, ISSN, DOI, etc.), in order to favor its circulation and diffusion, increase its citation and reach among the academic community.
The information of the journal will be provided to Dulcinea