Ethical Challenges of the New Economy: An Agenda of Issues

In this article, the author tries to draw a "map" of the main positive and negative ethical challenges raised by the new economy, concentrating on its three basic features: 1) a knowledge- and information-based technological change, 2) which is taking place in real time on a planetary scale (globalization), and 3) which entails a new, flexible, network-based business organization.