Seemingly, the economic relations have nothing to do with the morality. The economy claims to be able to be a science; yet in the other scientific disciplines one does not arise this type of questions (we do not wonder if the physics of particles is moral either or not or if the composition of such molecule obeys ethical principles. The analysis led here on Bernard Mandeville’s papers which showed the ambiguous relationships which the vice maintains with the virtue. However the paradox is that the economy cannot work without a certain shape of morality. The economy is made by individuals endowed with a capacity to know right from wrong. While … Continue reading Frédéric Teulon