Consuming choices : ethics in a global consumer age /

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Author / Creator:Schwartz, David T. (David Thomas), 1961-
Imprint:Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 139 pages)
Language:English
Series:Philosophy and the global context
Philosophy and the global context.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11221282
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ISBN:9781442204300
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9780742548138
0742548147
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Summary:Being a consumer is now integral to the human experience, something none of us can avoid. At the same time, many of the products that we buy come to us with histories steeped in highly unethical practices, such as worker exploitation, animal suffering, and environmental damage. Consuming Choices considers the ethical dimensions of consumer life by exploring several basic questions: Exactly what sorts of unethical practices are implicated in today's consumer products? Does moral culpability for thesepractices fall solely on the companies that perform them, or does it also fall upon consumers wh.
Other form:Print version: Schwartz, David T. Consuming choices. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010 9780742548138
Standard no.:9786612561238

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