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'''Business ethics''' pertains to the need to ensure clear [[business]] national and international standards and codes of conduct in the [[society]] and world of commerce. Successful business needs trust between buyer and seller whereas morally wrong [[bribery]] and [[corruption]] derail the [[economy]], discourage economic development, distort fair decision-making, destroy social cohesion and damage political stability. Corruption is also dishonouring to God and antithesis of showing love to our neighbour. Individuals may feel helpless victims of a system based on corrupt practices where the rich and powerful abuse or exploit power to satisfy greed by taking advantage of the poor and weak. In contemporary [[materialistic]] culture people may easier become complacent about or even seduced by the culture of corruption around them. The [[Bible]] however makes clear that the corruption is entirely wrong and calls people to take stand against it. The [[Christian]] [[ethic]] combines the values of honest business, hard work and the development of [[nature]]. It is based on [[Christ]]'s teaching in the [[gospel]]s that we should multiply our [[talent]]s, behave [[ethic]]ally, and not be extravagant in [[lifestyle]]. It can be shown that in case of [[protestant]] countries, this ethical living led to the accumulation of [[capital]] which paid for the trading ships and laid the basis for [[trade]] expansion and technical development for economical prosperity.<ref name="Salt">{{cite book
|title=Light, Salt and the world of business
|author=Fred Catherwood
|publisher=International Fellowship of Evangelical Students
|isbn=978-1-899464-05-0
|url=http://www.didaskofiles.com/?page_id=52
}}</ref>
==History==
Europe in the late [[middle ages]] was in general a corrupt society where thinking of many leaders was marked by [[machiavellianism]]. One significant force which triggered change was the publication of the Bible in the common language of the people. Because people read the Bible, which teaches the need for truth and honesty, their merchants were trusted and the trust between the merchants and their bankers brought the savings needed to finance the ever-rapidly-rising volume of trade. Europe's post-[[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] [[Calvinist]] [[church]]es gave a good model for public life and created a counter culture from which emerged the early [[protestant]] [[Christian]] [[ethics]] of innovation, hard work and mutual trust. This new ethics was firmly based on [[Christ]]'s [[parable]] of the talents and resulted in financial independence for the protestant churches from the culture of corruption around them and contributed to a vigorous trade within and between the protestant countries of [[Switzerland]], The [[Netherlands]], [[Scotland]], [[England]], [[New England]], and [[Prussia]].<ref name="Salt"/>
==References==
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[[Category:Economics]]
[[Category:Ethics]]
|title=Light, Salt and the world of business
|author=Fred Catherwood
|publisher=International Fellowship of Evangelical Students
|isbn=978-1-899464-05-0
|url=http://www.didaskofiles.com/?page_id=52
}}</ref>
==History==
Europe in the late [[middle ages]] was in general a corrupt society where thinking of many leaders was marked by [[machiavellianism]]. One significant force which triggered change was the publication of the Bible in the common language of the people. Because people read the Bible, which teaches the need for truth and honesty, their merchants were trusted and the trust between the merchants and their bankers brought the savings needed to finance the ever-rapidly-rising volume of trade. Europe's post-[[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] [[Calvinist]] [[church]]es gave a good model for public life and created a counter culture from which emerged the early [[protestant]] [[Christian]] [[ethics]] of innovation, hard work and mutual trust. This new ethics was firmly based on [[Christ]]'s [[parable]] of the talents and resulted in financial independence for the protestant churches from the culture of corruption around them and contributed to a vigorous trade within and between the protestant countries of [[Switzerland]], The [[Netherlands]], [[Scotland]], [[England]], [[New England]], and [[Prussia]].<ref name="Salt"/>
==References==
<References/>
[[Category:Economics]]
[[Category:Ethics]]