A pragmatic approach to business ethics / Alex C. Michalos
- Bib ID:
- 2121073
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Michalos, Alex C
- Description:
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- Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1995
- 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0803970846 (alkaline paper)
- 0803970854 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Summary:
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The issues discussed are broad and far reaching and include the relations between rational and moral/ethical decision making, the limits of loyalty to employers, the impact of trust on business, and the role of commercial public opinion polling during elections. Michalos also covers advertising, tobacco promotion, manufacture and marketing of armaments, concentration and taxation of wealth, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Provocative and insightful, A Pragmatic Approach to Business Ethics provides a foundation for business ethics that is essential.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ethical Considerations in Evaluation
- 3. Moral Responsibility in Business, or, Fourteen Unsuccessful Ways to Pass the Buck
- 4. The Loyal Agent's Argument
- 5. The Best and Worst Arguments for Business Ethics
- 6. The Impact of Trust on Business, International Security, and the Quality of Life
- 7. Ethical Considerations Regarding Public Opinion Polling During Election Campaigns
- 8. Advertising: Its Logic, Ethics, and Economics
- 9. A Case Against Tobacco Promotion
- 10. A Case for a Progressive Annual Net Wealth Tax
- 11. The Case Against the North American Free Trade Agreement
- 12. Militarism and the Quality of Life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Business ethics
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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