Business EthicsThis text is an examination of the contemporary ethical problems of business in a philosophical context. It analyzes various types of capitalism, in particular, the Anglo-American type which is practised primarily in the English speaking world, and is exemplified by the commercial and financial systems of Wall Street and the City of London. This analysis includes an examination of the corporation, the ethics of the stock market, the morality of takeovers, and the problem of business and the environment. |
Contents
Value Systems | 17 |
The Corporation | 37 |
Corporate Social Responsibility | 68 |
Copyright | |
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action activity Adam Smith argument assets behaviour breach business agents business enterprise business ethicists business ethics capitalism capitalist civil claim commercial competition contracts conventional corporate form costs course criminal critics David Hume decisions deontological deontological ethics doctrine doubt duties economic effect efficiency Efficient Markets Hypothesis employees entrepreneur entrepreneurship environment environmental especially example existence exploitation fact favourable feature firm Furthermore genuine harm human important income individuals industrial insider dealing insider trading interests investors involved J.K. Galbraith justice Kirzner long-term managements ment Michael Milken Milken moral ness nomic normally notion offence organization owners ownership perfect competition person political pollution principle Prisoner's Dilemma problems profit property rights prosecution raiders regulation relationships restraint rules securities market self-interest share price Social Market Economy social responsibility society spontaneous stakeholder theory stock market successful tion transactors trust utilitarian