Ethicmentality - Ethics in Capitalist Economy, Business, and Society

Michela Betta is a teacher, researcher, theorist, and writer. She studied philosophy and social sciences in Milan and Frankfurt, and completed her doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt. She has held academic positions in Germany and Australia where she currently lives and is a senior academic at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne). She is interested in ethics in relation to a variety of topics spanning organisation, management, business, education, law, and science. She has published on a variety of topics in scholarly journals and books associated with her research interests. Michela has also published three collections of short stories with the intention of exploring ethical thinking through literary media.

• Introduction.- PART I – Capitalism and Capital.- Introduction to Part I.- 1. The Contradictions of Capitalism: A Schumpeterian Analysis.- 2. Governmentality and the Economy: A Foucauldian Perspective.- 3. The Inequality of Capital: An Economic Critique.- PART II – Society and Business.- Introduction to Part II.- 4. The Importance of Money.- 5. Three Case Studies: Australian HIH, American Enron, and Global Lehman Brothers.- 6. The Rise of the Managers.- PART III – Ethical Practices.- Introduction to Part III.- 7. Ethical Capital.- 8. Entrepreneurial Ethics.- 9. Aristotle and Business Ethics.- Conclusion.- 10. Ethicmentality.

“Ethicmentality could be considered as an ambitious book, written by an author who is fully and variously engaged in applied ethics. … It provides a well-conducted analysis of the mechanisms of capitalism and of the Great Financial Crisis. The case-studies are excellent … . The account of literature in business ethics is also wide and useful to the reader. … the smoothness of Betta’s language and her argumentative clarity are remarkable.” (Nordicum-Mediterraneum, Vol. 13 (1), 2018)