The author examines
the transformation of the general entrepreneurial ethics of the leading market economies
after the Second World War. It is shown, that their ethical and regulatory
development in this period revealed anew the acuteness of the problem posed by
the gaps between the «internal» ethical normativity of the business community
and the «external» regulatory steps of the state aimed at ensuring of equal and
fair rules of the market activity and the social peace. The article provides an
assessment of the resulting effect of these gaps upon weakening of mutual trust
between individual entrepreneurs, mass social strata and the state. It is
shown, that these processes dramatically reduce the economic activity results
predictability, as well as the possibility of the forecasting of the content,
tempo and prospects of economic development.
Keywords business/entrepreneurial
ethics, the moral law, conflicts of normativity, competition, negative
externalities, the social market state, special interests, the crisis, the
market «bubbles», trust, development planning.
