Annales. Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym: Recent submissions
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Moral dilemmas of the development of postmodern societies
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The aim of the article is to present tensions that occur in social, cultural, political, and technological spheres as a result of the development of postmodern societies. The changes that have been taking place in those ... -
Business Ethics in Poland: A metatheoretical analysis
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)From the beginning of the 1990s, a considerable interest in business ethics has been observed in Poland. It seems that the legacy of Polish researchers concerned with this academic discipline is already rich enough, and ... -
The phenomenon of the precariat in the Polish labour market during Poland’s membership in the European Union
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)Studies of the scale of unemployment in Poland and in Europe conducted in recent years lead to the conclusion that one of the largest and growing problems of the modern labour market is the unemployment rate among young ... -
The feminisation of precarity Poland compared to other countries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)Precarity applies to people who, in order to survive, need to work in a low-quality job, which is uncertain, temporary, low-paid, with no prospect of promotion, no security and no contract. In this sense, the precariat is ... -
Socrates and Business Ethics. Considerations on the ethical origins of responsibility
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The presented work attempts to show a link between business and global responsibility, and the Socratic idea of self-knowledge. Today’s ethics discusses the fundamental issues of man’s place in the world. The human existence ... -
Were capitalists interested only in profit in the 19th century? An example of Jan Gottlieb Bloch
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The social class which was the spiritus movens of rapid economic transformation in the lands of the Kingdom of Poland in the nineteenth century was the bourgeoisie. In the public sphere, there is still a strong conviction ... -
Moral and ethical aspects of the Polish transition from communism in the enunciations of the Polish Episcopate
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The Polish Episcopate critically assessed the social and economic situation in Poland in the period of the transition from communism to democracy and a freemarket economy. Privatisation led to production being stopped and ... -
The meritocracy or “responsibility elite”? An evangelical approach to the issue of social elites
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The notion of meritocracy is among the keywords used to describe the contemporary world. Increasingly, it has become a central concept of an order with globalization and the impact of free-market philosophy on society and ... -
Reputation and its measurement. An institutional approach
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article deals with the issue of identifying and measuring institutions. As an example, reputation was taken into consideration. The analysis leads to the conclusion that reputation could be treated as an institution ... -
The economic ethics of Calvinism. The reconciliation of piety and wealth
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The doctrine of predestination in the Lutheran and Calvinist theology, along with the assumption of a radical separation of nature and grace as well as the material and spiritual realm, had a significant impact on social ... -
The ethical and praxeological conceptions of an act and its evaluation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The conception of an act and its evaluation constitute the most interesting and important moral subject which consists of a complex set of theoretical and practical issues. The article includes St. Thomas’ conception of ... -
Cultural and religious attitude to banking in the great world religions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article examines the attitude of the great world religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism) toward the world of finance, including banking. The issue of usury plays a key role in the ... -
Remarks on the genesis of UNRRA. Negotiations between the Great Powers and selected treaty provisions
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)As a conceptual framework, UNRRA referred to one of the four freedoms (freedom from want) mentioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech given in Congress on January 6, 1946. In the first section, the article presents early ... -
Dialogue, ethics, economy. The application of dialogue in management (in the context of business ethics in the German-speaking area)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article names the conditions that a conversation has to fulfill in order to become a dialogue. The author undertakes to present the philosophy and ethics of dialogue, which were established based on the concept of ... -
The scope of responsibility of employers towards workers’ families in the Second Republic of Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The aim of this article is the presentation of the scope of responsibility of employers towards workers’ families in Poland in the interwar period. The article also shows how those duties were fulfilled. This issue appeared ... -
A brief history of Business Ethics here and now
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article is a review of issues connected with business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the last 20 years. Two decades have passed since the Sixth Polish Philosophical Congress took place in Toruń, ... -
The labor issue in the USA in the first half of the 20th century. The contribution of the Catholic Church to its solution
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The stance of the Catholic Church in the United States of America on the problems related to workers’ wages is an interesting issue from the point of view of the ethics of economic life and the development of Catholic ... -
Development Economics and the issues of poverty and social inequalities
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)Development economics emerged as a separate discipline of economic science in the 1950s but it wasn’t until the 1960s and mid-1970s that it began to draw serious attention. Gradually, an extensive literature concerning ... -
Exploitation in the face of justice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The paper refers to selected issues of exploitation in the face of justice. The analysis is based on the definitions of exploitation contained in the Polish Penal and Civil Codes. The main goal is the identification of the ... -
Values and economic development
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The main aim of the paper is to show and examine how culture shapes human progress; in particular—how values determine economic development. The author describes culture as an axiological sphere including values, rules, ...