Moral Capitalism

PREFACE

GIVING PEOPLE MENTAL CONSTRUCTS like the Caux Round Table (CRT) Principles for Business to apply in their calculations of how best to gain business advantage will impact their behavior. Teaching of norms, while no guarantee that students will apply their lessons well, nonetheless is where we must start in building a moral community.

Great teachers like Jesus Christ, Confucius and the Gautama Buddha gave us stories and principles by which we could, in their minds, so order our daily lives that we would become more worthy and find greater happiness. The end of their teachings was that we would apply in our own lives—by means of our own mental and emotional abilities—ideas and understandings that we have learned from them.

Such idealists ...