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entrepreneurship ethics  

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  • Writing on the ethics of entrepreneurship has generally taken the form of defenses of free market capitalism, with particular attention given to the libertarian ideals supported by this system of wealth creation and distribution. Consequentialist critiques have pointed to the distributive inequities that attend concentration of wealth in the hands of a few entrepreneurs. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Entrepreneurship, Ethics of]

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