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The ethics of bankruptcy /

The Ethics of Bankruptcy is the first comprehensive study that employs the tools of ethics to examine the controversies surrounding insolvency.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kilpi, Jukka, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Series:Professional ethics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; Prologue; The institution and the conflicts behind it; Natural law, consequentialism and contractualism: theories of promising and their shortfalls; In search of the ultimate obligation: why a metaethical affair?; Ethics founded on autonomy: a modest objectivist foundationalist interpretation of Kant; Autonomy and promissory obligations; Going broke, breaking promises; Deontological ethics and insolvency; What kind of discharge?; Propping up civil liability: contract, breach of trust and tort; Punishment.