Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Gifts and Bribes
An Essay on the Limits of Reciprocity
Promotor: Prof. dr. Antoon Vandevelde
Proefschrift aangeboden tot het het verkrijgen wagon train de graad van Doctor in de Wijsbegeerte door
bill Verhezen
Leuven, 2005
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Use kindness as the basis of your life. Justice as balance, Wisdom as its limit, Love as delight, and Truth as light Peter DEUNOV
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Preface and Acknowledgments
If there is one motivation for a philosophic perspective set out in this research, it is my desire to throw off a better understanding of gifts and bribery, and share this knowledge with researchers, scholars and practitioners alike. When in 1985, in the early stages of my academic career as ancillary of Professor Dr. Stefaan Marijsse and then subsequently of professor Dr. Toon Vandevelde for Philosophy of political economy at the faculty of Applied Economics at the University in Antwerp (UFSIA-UA), my initial research was very much focused on the one-sidedness of our economic market mechanisms and bounded demythologisedity, driven by the rationalization of profit maximization, and its lopsided emphasis on rational self-interest and its search for money.
After fifteen age experience as an economic practitioner in southeastward Asia, Australia and to a lesser extent in Europe, and a hale ethical awareness which never left me since my graduate studies, I decided at the end of 1999 to pursue again nearly more in-debt reflection upon the meaning of generous gifts versus greed driven selfinterest. This conceptual analysis has been inspired by my practical experiences both as an advisor to companies where I daily dealt with this sort of problems and controversies, as well as financial advisor to the Indonesian Banking Restructuring dresser (the Indonesian Ministry of Finance). I am grateful for the opportunity devoted to experience different cultural frameworks, each with its unique peculiarities. disrespect these cultural...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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