Adam Smith on Business Ethics
指出当前商业伦理讨论常混淆伦理与政策、责任问题，并基于《国富论》分析资本主义造成的五种道德问题，如工人精神贫瘠、城市匿名性助长合谋定价等，对研究经济伦理的学者有参考价值。
Most current discussions of business ethics confuse truly ethical issues with ones of policy, liability, or deterrence. The fundamental ethical question about capitalism is whether its capacity to create wealth and reduce poverty is offset by a reduction in the moral quality of its participants. Though the Wealth of Nations is often read as a book wholly devoted to exchange, in it Adam Smith identifies (and in some cases proposes remedies for) five moral problems created by capitalism: impoverishing the spirit of the workers, creating cities in which anonymity will facilitate price-fixing, expanding the ranks of the rich who lack virtue, inducing government to create monopolies and privileges, and separating ownership and management in ways that lead to what we now call agency problems.