After the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late eighties, the capitalist system, based on private ownership and voluntary exchange, became the dominant model in both the developed and the developing world. Its strengths should not be underestimated: high productivity, efficient allocation of resources, healthy transmission of information, dynamism and growth. However, in recent years, the issues of the ethics of managerial behavior and corporate social responsibility have been thrust to the forefront of public debate. The spate of corporate scandals across the Atlantic, and similar cases in the European Union in the early 2000s, illustrate a complex reality, casting new doubts on the ability of capitalist societies to spontaneously impose natural limits on greed, selfishness and aggressive rivalry between economic actors. Today’s capitalist economies also face major difficulties in coping with worldwide issues such as global warming, persistent poverty in many areas of the globe, episodes of financial and political instability, etc.