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| Preface | |
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| The Moral and Political Framework of Business | |
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| Introduction: Markets and Business | |
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| Economic Systems and the Market | |
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| Evaluating the Market | |
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| The Readings | |
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| How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World | |
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| The Market | |
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| The Ethical Limitations of the Market | |
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| The Nature of Business | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Justice | |
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| Justice: Introductory Considerations | |
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| The Idea of Justice | |
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| Recent Challenges | |
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| The Readings | |
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| The Principles of a Liberal Social Order | |
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| A Theory of Justice | |
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| The Entitlement Theory | |
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| A Moral Case for Socialism | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Regulation | |
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| Regulation: The Background | |
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| Economic Regulation | |
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| The Readings | |
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| On the Rationale of Governmental Regulation | |
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| Paradoxes of the Regulatory State | |
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| Is There a Bias Toward Overregulation? | |
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| The Limits of Business Self-Regulation | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| The Moral Conditions of Commerce | |
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| The Relation Between the Descriptive and the Normative | |
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| A Moral Basis for Commerce? | |
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| Moral Conditions as Causal Conditions | |
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| The Readings | |
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| The Grumbling Hive | |
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| Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism | |
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| The Market Order and Abstract Rules | |
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| A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Ethical Theory | |
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| Ethical Theory | |
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| Ethical Relativism and Moral Differences | |
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| Normative Ethical Theories: An Overview | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Nicomachean Ethics | |
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| Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals | |
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| What Utilitarianism Is | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Vice and Virtue in the Conduct of Business | |
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| Character and Commerce | |
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| General Considerations | |
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| Virtue and Society | |
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| Virtues, Roles, and Rules | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Business Qualities | |
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| An Aristotelian Approach to Business Ethics | |
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| Bourgeois Virtue | |
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| Selfishness | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Atlas Shrugged | |
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| Business and the Economic Nexus | |
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| Prudence | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Of Prudence | |
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| Prudence | |
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| Generosity | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Liberality | |
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| Dimensions of Generosity | |
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| Manners | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Appearing Respectful: The Moral Significance of Manners | |
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| Why Do It? Because That's What We Do: Manners in the Ruins of Community | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Honesty and Integrity in Business | |
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| Honesty | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Of Honesty and Veracity in Dealing | |
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| Truthfulness, Deceit, and Trust | |
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| Is Business Bluffing Ethical? | |
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| Sales and Advertising | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Character and Caliber in Salesmanship | |
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| A Moral Evaluation of Sales Practices | |
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| Advertising | |
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| Advertising and Behavior Control | |
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| Integrity, Loyalty, and Whistleblowing | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Integrity | |
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| Loyalty | |
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| Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty | |
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| Whistleblowing: Professionalism, Personal Life, and Shared Responsibility | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Responsibility, Action, and the Conduct of Business | |
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| Individual Responsibility | |
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| The Readings | |
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| "I Only Work Here": Mediation and Responsibility | |
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| Role Obligations | |
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| Corporate Responsibility | |
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| The Readings | |
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| The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits | |
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| A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation | |
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| The Ethics of Rent-Seeking? A New Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility | |
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| Industry, Work, and Ambition | |
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| The Readings | |
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| The Way to Wealth | |
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| Why Work? | |
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| Of the Origin of Ambition | |
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| Courage, Entrepreneurship, and Profit | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Courage | |
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| The Entrepreneur | |
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| Why Profits Are Deserved | |
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| Entrepreneurs, Profits, and Deserving Market Shares | |
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| Freedom of Contract and Affirmative Action | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Employer and Employee Rights in an Institutional Context | |
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| In Defense of Unbridled Freedom of Contract | |
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| Moral Perspectives on Affirmative Action | |
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| The Moral Status of Affirmative Action | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| The Consequences of Commerce | |
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| The Moral Effects of Commerce | |
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| The Market as Cause | |
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| Positive and Negative Effects | |
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| Political Effects of Markets | |
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| Historical Perspective on Moral Effects | |
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| Alternative Explanations | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Of Laws in Relation to Commerce | |
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| Of Refinement in the Arts | |
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| Manifesto of the Communist Party | |
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| The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism | |
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| The Prevalence of War and The Loose Individual | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Economic Growth, Progress, and Culture | |
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| Progress and Economic Growth | |
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| Doubts about Progress | |
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| Culture and Consumerism | |
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| The Readings | |
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| A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind | |
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| Whatever Happened to Progress? | |
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| The Metropolis and Mental Life | |
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| The Consumer Society | |
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| A Framework for Utopia | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Commerce and the Arts | |
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| What Is Art? | |
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| Divergent Claims | |
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| Art, Business, and the State | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Art and Capitalism | |
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| A Mirror for Artists | |
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| Masscult and Midcult | |
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| The Arts in a Market Economy | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Business, Technology, and Environmental Ethics | |
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| Western Attitudes to Nature | |
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| Modern Science and Technology | |
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| Kinds of Environmentalism | |
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| Markets and the Environment | |
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| Protecting the Environment | |
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| The Readings | |
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| Technology and Wisdom | |
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| What Use? The World of Gadgets | |
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| Business and Environmental Ethics | |
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| The Economic Common Sense of Pollution | |
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| Can the Supply of Natural Resources Be Infinite? | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |