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This paper considers the relationship between ethics and economic performance. It is argued that culture has an important intermediating role in this relationship. Cultural intermediation is personified by the social or political leader, who promotes ethical values and is one of the principal beneficiaries of the improved economic performance that results from them.
I am grateful to Peter Koslowski for providing the stimulus to write this paper, and to the participants at the Fourth Annual SEEP Conference for their comments on it. I am particularly grateful to Fritz Ringer for interesting discussions on the subject.
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Casson, M. (1997). Moral Leadership in Ethical Economics. In: Koslowski, P. (eds) Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ethics, and Economics in the Newer Historical School. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59095-5_18
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