IN THIS SECTION:

1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE

 

 

 

 

 

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Contents

Preface

 

PART ONE Basic Principles

 

Chapter 1 Ethics and Business

Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business 

 

PART TWO The Market and Business

 

Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets, 

Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace

 

PART THREE Business and Its External Exchanges:

Ecology and Consumers

 

Chapter 5 Ethics and the Environment  

Chapter 6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing  

 

PART FOUR Business and Its Internal Constituencies

 

Chapter 7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination

Chapter 8 Ethics and the Employee

 

Notes

Index

 

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

ContentsPreface

 

PART ONE Basic Principles

 

Chapter 1 Ethics and Business

Introduction

1.1 The Nature of Business Ethics

ON THE EDGE: Was National Semiconductor Morally Responsible?

1.2 Ethical Issues in Business

ON THE EDGE: A Traditional Business

1.3 Moral Responsibility and Blame

ON THE EDGE: WorldCom’s Whistleblower

ON THE EDGE: Gun Manufacturers and Responsibility

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

Slavery in the Chocolate Industry

Aaron Beam and the HealthSouth Fraud

 

Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business

Introduction

2.1 Utilitarianism: Weighing Social Costs and Benefits

2.2 Rights and Duties

ON THE EDGE: Should Companies Dump Their Wastes In Poor

Countries?

ON THE EDGE: Working for Eli Lilly & Company

ON THE EDGE: Conflict Diamonds

ON THE EDGE: ExxonMobil, Amerada Hess, and Marathon Oil in

Equatorial Guinea

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

Traidos Bank and Roche’s Drug Trials in China

 

PART TWO The Market and Business

 

Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets,

and International Trade

Introduction

3.1 Free Markets and Rights: John Locke

3.2 Free Markets and Utility: Adam Smith

3.3 Free Trade and Utility: David Ricardo

3.4 Marx and Justice: Criticizing Markets and Free Trade

ON THE EDGE: Commodification or How Free Should Free Markets Be?

ON THE EDGE: Marx’s Children

3.5 Conclusion: The Mixed Economy, the New Property,

and the End of Marxism

ON THE EDGE: Napster’s Lost Revolution

ON THE EDGE: Brian’s Franchise

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

The GM Bailout

Accolade versus Sega

 

Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace

Introduction

4.1 Perfect Competition

4.2 Monopoly Competition

ON THE EDGE: Drug Company Monopolies and Profits

4.3 Oligopolistic Competition

4.4 Oligopolies and Public Policy

ON THE EDGE: Fixing the Computer Memory Market

ON THE EDGE: Oracle and Peoplesoft

CASES FOR DISCUSSION

Intel’s “Rebates” and Other Ways It “Helped” Customers

Archer Daniels Midland and the Friendly Competitors

 

PART THREE Business and It