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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Hlavní autor: Slegers, Rosa (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Issues in Business Ethics, 49
Témata:
Ethics.
Philology.
Linguistics.
Business.
Management science.
ISBN:9783319987316
ISSN:0925-6733 ;
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505 0 |a 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. 
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