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This chapter surveys the literature which discusses the so-called relevance of the humanities. This survey frames the rest of the essays that follow and introduces the book as a whole.
The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there’s a culture of going along to get along, where whistleblowers are discouraged, bad things happen and businesses implode. Martha C. Nussbaum (2017)
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Thate, M. (2023). The Humanities, Business, and the Question of Relevance. In: Thate, M., Zsolnai, L. (eds) Humanities as a Resource and Inspiration for Humanizing Business. Virtues and Economics, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33525-9_1
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