from "A Theology of the Corporation" by Micheal Novak

Jekabs raised the issue of whether a certain product could only arise in a capitalist society. Worth discussing, but in the meanwhile here's something that might involve what he's after. Novak suggests that the following virtues form and arise from the character of economic activity:

1. Creativity: “The Creator locked great riches in nature, riches to be discovered only gradually through human effort.”
2. Liberty: “The corporation mirrors God’s presence also in its liberty, by which I mean independence from the state. “
3. Birth and Mortality: “As products of human liberty, corporations rise and fall, live and die. One does not have in them a lasting home—or even an immortal enemy.”
4. Social Motive: “Corporations, as the very word suggests, are not individualistic in their conception, or in their purposes. [. . .] The fundamental intention of the system from the beginning has been the wealth of all humanity.”
5. Social Character: “The corporation is inherently and in its essence corporate. The very word suggests communal non-individual, many acting together.[. . .] Corporations depend on the emergence of an infrastructure in intellectual life that makes possible new forms of communal collaboration.”
6. Insight: “Constantly teams of persons meet to brainstorm and world out common strategies. Insight is the chief resource of any corporation, and there cannot be too much of it. Its scarcity is called and stupidity.”
7. The Risk of Liberty and Election: “A corporation faces liberty and election; it is part of its romance to do so.”