The moral economy of the rich
本文运用“道德经济”概念分析富人和有权势者的行为，以19世纪末一位省级商人解雇两名长期员工引发公愤的案例，探讨就业道德、工作权利和裁员的发展，并讨论公司法变化对企业行为的影响。
This article applies the concept of a ‘moral economy’ to the actions of the rich and powerful. The author focuses attention on business owners and provides a case study of a late nineteenth-century provincial businessman and his dismissal of two long-serving employees, an act which caused outrage in his community. The author questions how the morality of employment, job rights and dismissal developed subsequently and sketches developments up to the 1960s. The article then provides a more speculative discussion of the effects of changes in corporate law on corporate behaviour and suggests they have had a tendency to produce a moral irresponsibility in the behaviour of corporate officers.