Achieving Social and Economic Equality by Unifying Business and Ethics: Adam Smith as the Cause of and Cure for the Separation Thesis
指出亚当·斯密关于自利决策提升社会福利的论点与现实中社会和经济不平等相矛盾，认为这种不平等源于斯密未将《国富论》中的经济人置于《道德情操论》的社会背景中，从而导致了商业与伦理的分离。作者通过整合斯密的同情、亲密和正义概念，提出统一论点，为管理者提供规范指导。
Abstract Adam Smith's famous argument that self‐interested decisions will ultimately improve social welfare seems inconsistent with the social and economic inequality characterizing Smith's time and today. I contend that these inequalities are the result of Smith's failure to explicitly situate the economic man he describes in The Wealth of Nations within the broader social context he articulates in The Theory of the Moral Sentiments , an omission which has since given rise to the separation thesis, which states that business decisions have no moral content and moral decisions have no business content. In response to this modern‐day Adam Smith problem, I integrate Smith's notions of sympathy, intimacy, and justice into a unification thesis that articulates how individuals might balance their self‐interested and benevolent motives. By reuniting the discourses of business and ethics, this research may inform contemporary theories of business ethics and provide normative guidance for managers.