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Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good

Book by Stephen Young · 4 quotes · Capitalism, Ifs, Moral

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“A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.”

“Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.”