{"id":3354,"date":"2014-01-31T15:38:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jesushuertadesoto.com\/?page_id=3354"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:44:43","slug":"the-ethics-of-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"articulo","link":"https:\/\/www.jesushuertadesoto.com\/en\/articles\/articles-in-english\/the-ethics-of-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ethics of Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE ETHICS OF CAPITALISM<\/p>\n

Jes\u00fas Huerta de Soto
\nProfessor of Political Economy
\nKing Juan Carlos University of Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/a>
\n1. The failure of consequentialism<\/a>
\n2. The utmost importance of the ethical foundation of freedom<\/a>
\n3. On the possibility of building a theory of social ethics<\/a>
\n4. Morality and efficiency<\/a>
\n5. The essential contribution of Kirzner to the field of Ethics.<\/a>
\n6. The social doctrine of the Catholic Church and Kirzner’s contributio<\/a>n
\n7. Some critical comments to Kirzner’s work<\/a>
\n8. Conclusion<\/a><\/p>\n

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