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Business Meets Humanities NEH Grant

This curricular planning grant will support a variety of curricular design projects meant to identify the learning goals for an education in undergraduate business and leadership that is anchored in the liberal arts and humanities.

Bibliography

Books

  • Amadae, S. M. (2016). Prisoners of reason: Game theory and neoliberal political economy. Cambridge University Press.
  • Bales, K. (2016). Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World. Random House.
  • Beckert, S. (2014). Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Vintage.
  • Brams, S. J. (2011). Game theory and the humanities: bridging two worlds. MIT press.
  • Chwe, M. S. Y. (2014). Jane Austen, game theorist. Princeton University Press.
  • Colby, Anne, et al. (2011) Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession. Wiley.
  • Friedman, T. L. (2005). The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century. Macmillan
  • Graeber, D. (2012). Debt: The first 5000 years. Penguin UK.
  • Heilbroner, R. L. (2011). The worldly philosophers: The lives, times and ideas of the great economic thinkers. Simon and Schuster.
  • Hirschman, Albert. (1977). The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. Princeton University Press.
  • Hont, Istvan. (2010). Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective. Harvard University Press.
  • Johnson, Steven (2018) Farsighted. Riverhead Books
  • Kracauer, Siegfried (1929/1998) The Salaried Masses (trans: Quintin Hoare). Verso.
  • Liu, G. M. (2022). Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism. Princeton University Press.
  • McCloskey, D. N. (2000). How to be Human--Though an Economist. University of Michigan Press.
  • McCloskey, D. N. (2000). Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain The Modern World. University of Chicago Press.
  • Melville, Herman (1853). Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street.
  • Morson, G. S., & Schapiro, M. (2017). Cents and sensibility: What economics can learn from the humanities. Princeton University Press.
  • Nussbaum, M. C. (2016). Not for profit: Why democracy needs the humanities. Princeton university press.
  • Olson, M. (2022). The rise and decline of nations: Economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities. Yale University Press.
  • Parker, Martin (2018). Shut Down the Business School: What's Wrong with Management Education. Pluto Press.
  • Sandberg, J. & Warenski, L. (2024) The Philosophy of Money and Finance. Oxford University Press.
  • Scanlon, T. (2018). Why does inequality matter? Oxford University Press.
  • Payne, K. (2018). The broken ladder: How inequality affects the way we think, live, and die. Penguin.
  • Sandel, M. J. (2012). What money can’t buy: the moral limits of markets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Schlaudt, O. (2021). Philosophy of economics: a heterodox introduction. Routledge.
  • Terkel, S. (Ed.). (1974). Working: People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do. The New Press.

Articles

  • Abend, Gabriel (2013). The Origins of Business Ethics in American Universities, 1902–1936. Business Ethics Quarterly 23 (2):171-205.
  • Carrithers, David F. & Peterson, Dean (2006). Conflicting Views of Markets and Economic Justice: Implications for Student Learning. Journal of Business Ethics 69 (4):373-387.
  • Deets, Stephen ; Rodgers, Vikki ; Erzurumlu, Sinan & Nersessian, David (2020). Systems Thinking as a Tool for Teaching Undergraduate Business Students Humanistic Management. Humanistic Management Journal 5 (2):177-197.
  • Glac, Katherina & Michaelson, Christopher (2012). What is a Good Answer to an Ethical Question? Journal of Business Ethics Education 9:233-258.
  • Henry, Wayne ; Morehouse, Mort & Gardner, Susan T. (2017). Combatting Consumer Madness. Teaching Ethics.
  • Hoivik, Heidi von Weltzien (2009). Developing Students' Competence for Ethical Reflection while Attending Business School. Journal of Business Ethics 88 (1):5 - 9.
  • Kennedy, Ellen J. & Lawton, Leigh (1992). Business ethics in fiction. Journal of Business Ethics 11 (3):187 - 195.
  • Manolis, Chris ; Chinta, Ravi ; Assudani, Rashmi H. & Burns, David J. (2011). The Effect of Pedagogy on Students' Perceptions of the Importance of Ethics and Social Responsibility in Business Firms. Ethics and Behavior 21 (2):103-117.
  • Mintz, Steven M. (1996). Aristotelian virtue and business ethics education. Journal of Business Ethics 15 (8):827 - 838.