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Nooteboom presents students, academics, researchers, andprofessionals in a variety of areas with an argument against the utilitarian ethic that dominates economics and provides for failuresin anticipating periods of economic downturn. The author argues instead for an Aristotelian virtue ethic, providing for multipledimensions of prosperity. His text is organized in six chapters, providing a general introduction then covering the foundations ofmarkets, examining how markets work and fail, profiling a variety of industries, and covering several other related subjects. BartNooteboom is a faculty member of Tilburg University, The Netherlands.Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)