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| Preface | |
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| Business and Philosophy | |
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| Philosophical Ethics and Business | |
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| U.S. Steel and Youngstown, Ohio | |
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| What Is "Ethics"? | |
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| Business Ethics: The Free Market Theory | |
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| The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits | |
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| Doing Business Ethics: An Analysis of Friedman | |
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| Friedman's Radical Position | |
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| Free Society | |
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| Utilitarianism and the Free Market | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| Versions of Utilitarianism | |
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| Contemporary Versions | |
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| Challenges to Utilitarianism | |
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| Utilitarian Defense of the Free Market | |
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| An Analysis of the Utilitarian Defense | |
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| Is the Free Market the Best Means? | |
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| Rights and the Market | |
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| A Theory of Rights | |
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| Rights and Respect | |
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| Dignity and Autonomy | |
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| What Rights? | |
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| The Scope of Rights | |
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| Basic and Derivative Rights: Resolving Conflicts | |
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| Rights Arguments for the Free Market | |
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| The Right to Liberty and the Market | |
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| The Corporation as a Social Institution | |
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| The Nature of the Corporation | |
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| Corporate Responsibility | |
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| Stakeholder Theory | |
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| Social Contract Theory | |
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| Corporate Governance and Control | |
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| The History of Government Regulation | |
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| The Debate on the New Regulation | |
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| Models of Internal Corporate Governance | |
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| A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation: Kantian Capitalism | |
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| Balancing Act | |
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| Remarks on Marcoux: Defending Stakeholder Theory | |
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| Business and Employees | |
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| Job Security: Dismissals and Layoffs | |
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| Individual Dismissals | |
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| Modifications to Employment at Will | |
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| Just Cause Policies | |
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| Just Cause vs. EAW | |
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| Consequences | |
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| Rights | |
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| Layoffs | |
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| Case Study: Levi's Shrinks | |
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| The Right to Due Process | |
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| Rights in the Workplace: A Nozickian Argument | |
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| Practices of Successful Organizations: Job Security | |
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| The New Security: "Employability" | |
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| The New "Employability Contract" and Social Contract Theory | |
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| Public Policy and Employment at Will | |
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| Closing a Chrysler Plant | |
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| Unwritten Employment Contracts | |
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| "Wrongful Hiring" | |
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| Plant Closing Responsibilities | |
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| Montana's Just Cause Legislation | |
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| Employee Responsibilities: Honesty, Loyalty, Conflicts of Interest | |
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| Employee Responsibilities in Law | |
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| Professional Responsibilities | |
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| Honesty in Employment | |
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| Loyalty and Whistleblowing | |
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| Conflicts of Interest and Insider Trading | |
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| Case Study: The Challenger Disaster: Conflicting Responsibilities at Morton Thiokol and NASA | |
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| Is Business Bluffing Ethical? | |
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| Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty | |
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| What Is Really Unethical About Insider Trading? | |
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| "Soft Money" in the Securities Industry | |
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| Buy American, or Else! | |
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| Inside Information at the Wall Street Journal | |
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| Whistleblowing at the Phone Company | |
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| Employee Participation | |
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| Varieties of Participation | |
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| Participation and Rights | |
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| Participation and Firm Performance | |
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| Participation and Organized Labor | |
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| Case Study: Saturn Motors: Shifting into Reverse? | |
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| An Ethical Basis for Employee Participation | |
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| Democracy and Economic Rights | |
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| Workplace Representation Overseas: The Works Council Story | |
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| Quality Circles and Labor Productivity | |
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| The Mondragon Cooperatives | |
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| The German Model of Employee Participation | |
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| Electromation: Illegal Employee Participation | |
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| Donnelly Mirrors: Forty Years of Participation | |
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| Employee Privacy | |
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| The Nature of Privacy | |
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| The Value of Privacy | |
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| Consumer Privacy | |
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| Case Study: Genetic Screening in the Workplace | |
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| Drug Testing in Employment | |
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| The Ethics of Genetic Screening in the Workplace | |
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| Some Implications of New Technology on Privacy in the Workplace | |
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| E-mail Privacy | |
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| Dismissal for an Abortion? | |
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| If You Work Here, Don't Smoke | |
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| Preemployment Psychological Testing | |
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| Privacy in Employment | |
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| Surveillance at Work | |
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| Consumer Privacy | |
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| Health and Safety in the Workplace | |
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| The Nature and Value of Health | |
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| OSHA | |
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| Risky Work or Risky Workers? | |
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| Case Study: American Cyanamid and Johnson Controls | |
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| Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc. | |
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| The Occupational Safety and Health Problem | |
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| A Review of Some Normative and Conceptual Issues in Occupational Safety and Health | |
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| Genetic Discrimination in the Workplace | |
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| Health Insurance and Discrimination Against the Sick | |
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| Criminal Conviction for an Employee Death: Film Recovery Systems, Inc. | |
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| Video Display Terminals and Worker Health | |
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| Business and Consumers | |
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| Product Liability and Safety | |
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| Assessing Product Liability Alternatives | |
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| Reforming Product Liability Law | |
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| Product Safety Regulation | |
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| Ethics and Marketing of Dangerous Products | |
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| Case Study: Selling Guns: Negligent Marketing? | |
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| Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences | |
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| "Fairness, Strict Liability, and Public Policy" | |
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| Regulation and Paternalism | |
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| Tobacco Companies Under Fire | |
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| The Michigan Toy Box Company | |
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| Greenman v. Yuba Power Products | |
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| Children and Reasonably Safe Products | |
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| A. H. Robins and the Dalkon Shield | |
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| Caution: McDonald's Coffee is Hot! | |
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| Diethyestilbestrol (DES) | |
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| Advertising and Marketing | |
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| Introduction: Deception and Morality | |
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| Government Regulation of Deceptive Advertising | |
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| Nondeceptive Marketing, Autonomy, and Consumer Vulnerability | |
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| Case Study: Advertising Tobacco | |
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| Deceptive Advertising | |
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| Reasonable Consumer or Ignorant Consumer? How the FTC Decided | |
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| Advertising and Behavior Control | |
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| Marketing to Inner-City Blacks: PowerMaster and Moral Responsibility | |
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| Children as Consumers: An Ethical Evaluation of Children's Television Advertising | |
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| Seven Marketing Pitches | |
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| Advertising's Image of Women | |
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| Listerine and Corrective Advertising | |
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| Advertising Headaches | |
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| "Bait and Switch" | |
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| New, Improved ... and Smaller | |
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| Political Advocacy Meets High-Tech Ad Agencies | |
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| Business and Other Constituencies | |
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| Business and the Environment | |
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| Environment and Economics | |
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| Legal and Moral Standing | |
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| Growth and Sustainability | |
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| Case Study: Walt Disney vs. The Sierra Club | |
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| People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution | |
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| At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima or Why Political Questions Are Not All Economic | |
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| Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects | |
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| Morality, Money, and Motor Cars | |
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| A Road Map for Natural Capitalism | |
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| Global Warming | |
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| Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co. | |
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| The EPA's Management of Superfund | |
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| Pacific Lumber | |
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| Industry as Ecosystem | |
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| Discrimination in the Workplace: Race, Gender, Disabilities | |
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| Public Policy to Counter Discrimination | |
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| Arguments For and Against | |
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| Sexual Harassment | |
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| Disabled Workers | |
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| Case Study: Gays Need Not Apply | |
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| Preferential Hiring and Compensation | |
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| A Defense of Programs of Preferential Treatment | |
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| Sex Is the Least of It: Let's Focus Harassment Law on Work, Not Sex | |
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| Disability and the Right to Work | |
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| United Steeelworkers of America v. Weber | |
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| Preferential Treatment for Men? | |
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| Women Wage Earners: Less is Best? | |
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| Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Meritor Savings Bank | |
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| Federal Set-Asides: From Fullilove to Adarand | |
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| Hide the Wedding Ring | |
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| When Gender Harassment Is Not Sexual | |
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| Ethics and Multinational Corporations | |
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| Introduction: The Power of Multinationals | |
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| The Ethical Relativist Approach | |
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| The Nonrelativist Approach | |
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| Case Study: Indonesian Corruption and Multinationals | |
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| Rights in the Global Market | |
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| International Business, Morality, and the Common Good | |
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| The Moral Responsibility of Multinational Corporations to Be Socially Responsible | |
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| Marketing, the Ethics of Consumption, and Less-Developed Countries | |
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| Brazil: Economic Development versus Environmental Protection | |
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| The Dalkon Shield and Sales to Foreign Countries | |
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| Union Carbide's Poison Gas Disaster at Bhopal | |
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| "When in Rome": International Affirmative Action | |
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| Child and Bonded Labor: Business Responsibility for Supplier Practices | |
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| Drug Safety and the Third World | |
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| Index | |