Ethical theory, distributive justice, and corporate social responsibility

VOLUME ONE: ETHICAL THEORY, DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Preliminaries Why Business Ethics? The State of Business Ethics - Clarence C Walton PART ONE: ETHICAL THEORY AND BUSINESS ETHICS Perception The Parable of the Sadhu - Bowen H McCoy The Rashomon Effect - Patricia Werhane Strategy The Prince (Chapter 17) - Nicolo Machiavelli The Art of War (excerpts) - Sun Tzu Perspectives Utilitarianism and Business Ethics - Milton Snoeyenbos and James Humber Victims of Circumstances? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business - Robert C Solomon Virtue Ethics, the Firm and Moral Psychology - Daryl Koehn A Kantian Approach to Business Ethics - Norman E Bowie PART TWO: DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICS Classical Theories of Contracts, Property and Capitalism Leviathan (excerpts) - Thomas Hobbes Of Property - John Locke The Wealth of Nations (excerpts) - Adam Smith Alienated Labor and Private Property and Communism - Karl Marx Contemporary Theories of Distribution and Property A Theory of Justice (excerpts) - John Rawls The Entitlement Theory - Robert Nozick Capitalism and Morality - James Q Wilson Illusions about Private Property and Freedom - Gerald A Cohen Economic Justice - Milton Fisk Intellectual Property Justifying Intellectual Property - Edwin C Hettinger Trade Secrets and the Justification of Intellectual Property - Lynn Sharp Paine A Comment on Hettinger PART THREE: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY The Central Debate The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits - Milton Friedman A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation - R Edward Freeman Economics, Business Principles and Moral Sentiments - Amartya Sen Two Normative Theories of Business Ethics - John Hasnas A Guide for the Perplexed Arguments for and against Corporate Social Responsibility - N Craig Smith Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self-Interest and Profit - Harvey James Jr and Farhad Rassekh Does Business Ethics Make Economic Sense? - Amartya Sen New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility - Norman E Bowie Globalization and Its Ethical Significance Preliminary Report of the Secretary-General - Globalization and Its Impact on the Full Enjoyment of All Human Rights - United Nations General Assembly Global Distributive Justice - Thomas J Donaldson International Business, Morality and the Common Good - Manuel Velasquez The Great Non-Debate over International Sweatshops - Ian Maitland Environmental Responsibility Should Trees Have Standing? Towards Legal Rights for Natural Objects - Christopher D Stone The Place of Non-Humans in Environmental Issues - Peter Singer At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic - Mark Sagoff A Defense of Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis - Kristin Shrader-Frechette VOLUME TWO: FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE IN THE WORKPLACE PART ONE: RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES Employment at Will Employment at Will and Due Process - Patricia H Werhane and Tara J Radin In Defense of the Contract at Will - Richard A Epstein Work Life Balance Work in the Family and Employing Organization - S Zedeck and K L Mosier Work/Family Border Theory - S C Clark A New Theory of Work/Life Balance Whistleblowing Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility - Sissela Bok Whistleblowing - Richard T De George Drug Testing Drug-Testing in Employment - Joseph DesJardins and Ronald Duska Drug-Testing and the Right to Privacy - Michael Cranford The Ethics of Genetic Screening in the Workplace - Joseph Kupfer Technology and Privacy Computers and Privacy - Stacey L Edgar Privacy, Polygraphs and Work - George B Brenkert Safety in the Workplace The Employer-Employee Relationship and the Right to Know - Anita M Superson Human Rights, Workers' Rights and the 'Right' to Occupational Safety - Tibor R Machan PART TWO: JUSTICE AND FAIR PRACTICE Affirmative Action Why Bakke Has No Case and The Court and the University - Ronald Dworkin Affirmative Action - Shelby Steele The Price of Preference What Is Wrong with Reverse Discrimination? - Edwin C Hettinger Sexual Harassment The Definition of Sexual Harassment - Edmund Wall A Feminist Definition of Sexual Harassment - Anita M Superson Bluffing in Business Is Business Bluffing Ethical? - Albert Z Carr Business and Game-Playing - Daryl Koehn The False Analogy Second Thoughts about Bluffing - Thomas Carson Business Bluffing Reconsidered - Fritz Allhoff VOLUME THREE: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS Just Another Day at the Office - Don Welch The Ordinariness of Professional Ethics Professional Responsibility - Michael Davis Just Following the Rules? PART ONE: ETHICAL ISSUES IN ADVERTISING Truth and Deception in Advertising Deceptive Advertising - John J McCall Advertising - Tibor R Machan The Whole Truth or Only Some of the Truth? The Making of Self and World in Advertising - John Waide Creation of Desire Advertising and Behavior Control - Robert L Arrington Persuasive Advertising, Autonomy and the Creation of Desire - Roger Crisp Is Targeting Ethical? Children as Consumers - Lynn Sharp Paine An Ethical Evaluation of Children's Television Advertising Marketing to Inner-City Blacks - George G Brenkert PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility Consumer Risk The Ethics of Consumer Production - Manuel G Vasquez Strict Product Liability and Compensatory Justice - George G Brenkert PART TWO: ETHICAL ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE Earnings Hocus Pocus - Nanette Byrnes, Richard Melcher and Debra Sparks How Companies Come up with the Numbers They Want The Ethics of Creative Accounting - Oriol Amat, John Blake and Jack Dowds Ethics in the Public Accounting Profession - Mohammad J Abdolmohammadi and Mark R Nixon The Ethics of Insider Trading - Patricia Werhane What Is Morally Right with Insider Trading? - Tibor R Machan Justice and Insider Trading - Richard L Lippke PART THREE: ETHICAL ISSUES IN JOURNALISM The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalists - David Detmer The Intervention Dilemma - Susan Paterno Ethically Challenged - Lori Robertson Ethical Boundaries to Media Coverage - Raphael Cohen-Almagor Truth, Neutrality and Conflict of Interest - Judith Lichtenberg Media Culpas - Kelly Patricia O'Meara Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Defense Lawyer - Monroe H Freedman The Three Hardest Questions PART FOUR: ETHICAL ISSUES IN LAW The Adversary System Excuse - David Luban Pure Legal Advocates and Moral Agents - Elliot D Cohen Two Concepts of a Lawyer in an Adversary System Can Virtue Be Taught to Lawyers? - Amy Gutman Confidentiality and the Lawyer-Client Relationship - Bruce M Landesman A Lawyer's Duty to Represent Clients, Repugnant and Otherwise - Charles W Wolfram PART FIVE: ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICINE The Hippocratic Oath Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship - Ezekiel J Emanuel and Linda L Emanuel Legal and Ethical Myths about Informed Consent - Alan Meisel and Mark Kuczewski Truth and the Physician - Bernard C Meyer Lies to the Sick and Dying - Sissela Bok Standards of Competence - Allen E Buchanan and Dan W Brock Surrogate Decision-Making for Incompetent Adults - Dan W Brock An Ethical Framework