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: WorldComs 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 Roches 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: Marxs Children
3.5 Conclusion: The Mixed Economy, the New Property,
and the End of Marxism
ON THE EDGE: Napsters Lost Revolution
ON THE EDGE: Brians 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
Intels Rebates and Other Ways It Helped Customers
Archer Daniels Midland and the Friendly Competitors
PART THREE Business and It