Just business : arguments in business ethics /
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| Author / Creator: | Sandbu, Martin E. |
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| Imprint: | Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, c2011. |
| Description: | xv, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9031825 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Purpose of This Book
- Acknowledgments
- Support for Instructors and Students
- Chapter 1. The Business of Ethics: Reasoning about Right and Wrong
- A famous ethical dilemma
- Amoralism
- Ethical subjectivism
- Doing moral reasoning
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 2. Two Extreme Views: Managing for Shareholders or Stakeholders?
- The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits
- Medicine for the people
- Managing for "stakeholders"
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 3. Doing One's Job Well: The Ethics of Social Roles
- Ethics as playing one's role well
- Goodness, practices, and the virtues
- An Aristotelian approach to business ethics
- Business life and its telos
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 4. Roles and Conventions: Confronting Cultural Conflicts
- Conventionalism
- The relativist error
- The limits of role-based ethics
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 5. Ethics as Efficiency: Making Everyone Better Off
- Consequentialist ethics
- Utilitarianism
- "Efficiency" and the Pareto criterion
- Act- and rule-consequentialism
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 6. Is Greed Good? Advancing Society through Selfish Action
- As if by an invisible hand
- Why the empirical premise is often false
- Why the moral premise is false
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 7. Consequentialist Complications: Sacrificing One for the Many
- A trolley problem and a hospital case: two difficulties for utilitarianism
- Fairness and welfarist consequentialism
- Negative responsibility: Doing versus allowing
- Directed obligations
- Consequentialist retorts
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 8. Self-Evident Truths? Imagining a World without Rights
- Self-evident truths?
- A world without rights
- Taxonomy of rights
- Examples of rights
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 9. The Case for Rights: Justifying Right-Claims
- Relativism again: The Asian values debate
- Rights or "rights"?
- Rights, dignity, and consent
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 10. Ethics as Equal Freedom: Respecting Each Person's Dignity
- The source of moral worth
- Universalization as a source of duties
- Autonomy as a source of rights
- The Kantian company
- The Kantian firm in the marketplace: Revisiting deception
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 11. Fair Shares: Dividing the Value Added
- A particular right-claim: fairness and executive compensation
- The problem of "deservingness"
- Utilitarianism as a theory of justice
- Entitlements: Nozickian libertarianism
- Just and unjust inequalities: Rawlsian social contract theory
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Chapter 12. Just Business: Fulfilling Social Contracts
- A social contract theory of business ethics
- Rights revisited: Shareholders versus stakeholders
- Relativism revisited: Social conventions and moral free space
- Partial compliance theory
- Conclusion
- Summary of the Argument in This Chapter
- Appendix: Suggestions for Supplementary Material
- Index
