The challenges of capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good : interdisciplinary perspectives Introduction Kleio Akrivou Part I the common good in history: virtue epistemology as knowledge foundation for the relationships between institutions society and person(s) 1. The merchant and the common good: social paradigms and the states influence in western history Agustín González Enciso 2. The medieval the common good and accounting Alisdair Dobie 3. The civilization of commerce in the middle ages Mark Hanssen 4. Virtuous banking: the role of the community in monitoring English joint stock banks and their managements in the nineteenth century Victoria Barnes and Lucy Newton 5. Disposed toward self restraint: the London clearing banks 1946 71 Linda Arch Part II Aristotelian virtue the common good and current relevance for capitalism institutions and persons agency 6. Revisiting the common good of the firm Alejo José G. Sison 7. Integrated habitus for the common good of the firm a radically humanistic conception of organizational habitus with systemic human integrity orientation Kleio Akrivou Oluyemisi Bolade Ogunfodun and Adeyinka Adewale 8. Corporate agency character purpose and the common good Geoff Moore 9. Individual and organizational virtues Ron Beadle 10. Corporations politics and the common good Brian M. McCall 11. Two kinds of human integrity: towards the ethics of the inter processual self Kleio Akrivou and José Víctor Orón 12. Prudence as part of a worldview: historical and conceptual dimensions Germán R. Scalzo and Helen Alford 13. Non Western virtue ethics commerce and the common good Daryl Koehn 14. Reflections on the concept of the common good from an economic perspective Mark Casson. The evolution of modern capitalist society is increasingly being marked by an undeniable and consistent tension between pure economic and ethical ways of valuing and acting. This book is a collaborative and cross disciplinary contribution that challenges the assumptions of capitalist business and society. It ultimately reflects on how to restore benevolence collaboration wisdom and various forms of virtuous deliberation amongst all those who take part in the common good drawing inspiration from European history and continental philosophical traditions on virtue. Editors Kleio Akrivou and Alejo José G. Sison unite well known academics who examine new ways of understanding the relations between social classes organizations groups and the role of actors persons. They propose ways to restore virtue in our economy society person relations with the purpose of overcoming the current challenges of capitalism which more often than not sacrifice happiness and broader sustained prosperity for the achievement of short term efficiency. This book also explores a moral psychology that underpins normative virtue ethics theory and seeks a deeper understanding on how the concept of prudence and the distinct forms of rational excellence have evolved since Aristotle and the co evolution of Western Aristotelian and Eastern virtue ethics traditions. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to business ethics scholars organizational behaviour academics organizational sociologists qualitative research scholars and economic historians. Policy makers who are interested in improving collaborative frameworks and cross institutional collaboration policies will also find value in this book