Dogmatic neoliberal claim that “the less state intervention, the better” not only caused the crisis, but also blinds us to its real causes. Neoliberals and parts of the public influenced by them fail to notice that the system of housing credits created during the New Deal era worked well until the financial market was deregulated. While amending this market one should remember the views of Adam Smith, who emphasized the role of both market and the state in guarding values on which capitalism has been built.
The author refers to the defi nition of homo pecuniosus set by prof. Janina Filek and analyzes the scope of it in the context of business ethics. As a practitioner, he gives several examples taken from the real life of derivatives trading with different consequences of ethical or non-ethical behaviour. The final conclusion is that not only so called financiers, but all of us are homo pecuniosus and it may be a valuable concept when treated in a long-term sense.
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