Business is one thing, ethics is another: Revisiting Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 179-203

  Bragues, George ^a  

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DOI: 10.5840/beq200515213     Document Type: Article

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