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
