We live in a world where the internet and the world wide web have, in the matter of only
three decades, shifted from being at the forefront of a new frontier of communication …

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought. The
heated controversy provoked by their competing visions of human nature and society still …

This paper is a discussion about presence and its relationship to ethical and moral
behaviour. In particular, it problematises the notion of presence within a contemporary …

The importance of facilitating dialogic communication using online tools is evident by the
increasing use of social media to communicate CSR initiatives and engage with …

In literature, there is a long and ongoing dispute over whether free market institutions
encourage or discourage civic virtues. On the one hand, the so-called doux commerce …

Commerce changes the production of wealth in a society as well as its ethics. What is
appropriate in a non-commercial society is not necessarily appropriate in a commercial one …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 In 1976 SAGE published a series of short ‘university papers’,
which led to the publication of the QASS series (or the ‘little green books’ as they became known …

The article proposes a reading of Marcel Mauss's insights into gift exchange in primitive
societies through the lens of the institutional economics approach. It thus tries to …

Recent literature on Adam Smith and other eighteenth-century Scottish thinkers shows an
engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with …

Self-censorship is a well-documented phenomenon within the academy. Building from the
works of Tocqueville, Mill, and Smith, this paper identifies sources of self-censorship within …