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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ethics and Business: Business as Ethics | |
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| The One-Minute Moralist | |
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| Some Opening Cases | |
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| Why Ethics? | |
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| The Myth of Amoral Business | |
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| A Personal Ethical Audit | |
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| Fantasies of Black and White: In Defense of Colors | |
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| Compliance, Contributions, and Consequences: The Meaning of Integrity | |
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| Ethics and the Law | |
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| The Limits of Ethics: Business Scum | |
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| Practices Make Perfect: A Better Way to Look at Business | |
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| The Question of Quality | |
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| The Question of Quantity, Is Big So Bad? | |
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| Strategic Ethics | |
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| The Forces of Change: Ten Ongoing Ethical Challenges | |
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| The Strategic Ethical Response | |
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| Thinking Ethics: The Rules of the Game | |
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| How to Make a Decision: Eleven Steps to Ethical Problem Solving | |
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| The Buck Stops Somewhere: Responsibility | |
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| From Micro to Macro: Seven Levels of Business Ethics | |
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| Motivation, Money, and Morals: Micro-Ethics | |
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| Beyond the Profit Motive | |
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| The Entrepreneur: A Hero for Our Time? | |
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| Business and the Good Life | |
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| Having Fun - and Looking Out for Number One | |
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| Everything Money Can Buy | |
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| Playing Games: Business and the Casino Culture | |
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| The Ethics of Game Theory | |
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| Business and Poker: A Dangerous Analogy | |
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| Is It Ever Right to Lie? (On Truth in Advertising) | |
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| Morality: The Basic Rules | |
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| The Motivation of Morality | |
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| Ethical Styles | |
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| An Ethical Styles Questionnaire | |
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| Strategic Planning - For the Good Life | |
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| In, Out, and Up the Organization: Molar Ethics | |
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| What Do You Do? | |
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| Corporate Cultures | |
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| Corporate Ethics | |
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| Corporate Culture and Ethics Checklist | |
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| Ends, Means, and Methods: The Rationality of Business | |
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| Ethics, Efficiency, and Effectiveness | |
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| As Easy as X, Y, Z: The Meaning of Management | |
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| Pressures and Pyramids: Authority and Autonomy | |
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| Lost in the Corporation: Moral Mazes | |
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| Corporate Codes of Ethics | |
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| The Ethical Advocate: The Board of Directors | |
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| Corporate Loyalty | |
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| A Good Day's Work: The Eclipse of Merit | |
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| Corporate Poison | |
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| The System Problem | |
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| Corporate Pathology | |
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| Blowing the Whistle | |
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| The Internal Ethical Audit | |
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| Social Responsibility: Society and the Stakeholder | |
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| Why Social Responsibility? | |
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| "Impact" and the Stakeholder | |
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| Friedman's Paradox | |
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| The Puzzle of Corporate Responsibility | |
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| The Seven Deadly Corporate Sins | |
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| Mergers and Acquisitions: The Ethical Dimension | |
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| Liability in a Litigious Society | |
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| Fairness in the Corporation, Justice in the Marketplace | |
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| The Tragic Antagonism Between Labor and Management | |
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| Equality and Equal Opportunity | |
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| Legal Rights, Civil Rights, Human Rights | |
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| The Right to Dignity: "Harassment" and Sex in the Office | |
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| The Environment: The Silent Stakeholder | |
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| Noblesse Oblige: Business and Culture | |
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| The Social-Responsibility Audit | |
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| The New World of Business: A Macro-Ethical View | |
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| Is the Free Market Fair? | |
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| Spinoza's Worm | |
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| Economics and Ethics: An Untenable Dualism | |
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| Why Business? | |
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| The Judgments of History: The Ascent of Free Enterprise | |
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| Classical Capitalism: Adam Smith | |
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| The Marx Brothers: Questions That Won't Go Away | |
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| An Ethical View of Capitalism: Costs and Benefits | |
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| Beating the Bogeyman: Regulation and Business Revisited | |
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| International Ethics: When in Rome, or Tokyo, or ... | |
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| Conclusion: What Do We Stand For? People or Profits? | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |