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Preface | p. ix |
About the Author | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Why Business Ethics? | p. 2 |
Dispelling the Myths | p. 3 |
How to Use This Book | p. 4 |
Notes | p. 5 |
Conditions For Rational Choice | p. 6 |
Jennifer's Choice | p. 6 |
The Generalization Test | p. 7 |
The Basic Argument | p. 7 |
Corollaries of the Generalization Test | p. 8 |
Why Acts Must Have Reasons | p. 9 |
Identifying the Reasons for an Action | p. 10 |
Jennifer's Choice | p. 10 |
Judging Generalizability | p. 12 |
Professional Ethics | p. 12 |
Fiduciary Duty to Stockholders | p. 13 |
Exercises | p. 14 |
The Utilitarian Test | p. 15 |
Maximizing Utility | p. 15 |
Expected Utility | p. 17 |
Jennifer's Choice | p. 17 |
Does the End Justify the Means? | p. 17 |
Too Much Altruism? | p. 18 |
The Role of Self-Interest | p. 19 |
Predicting the Consequences | p. 19 |
Exercises | p. 20 |
Virtue Ethics | p. 20 |
Teleological Explanation | p. 21 |
Virtues | p. 21 |
Integrity | p. 21 |
Jennifer's Choice | p. 22 |
Exercises | p. 23 |
Notes | p. 24 |
Distributive Justice and Autonomy | p. 25 |
Measuring Utility | p. 25 |
Utility Functions | p. 26 |
Calibrating Utility Functions | p. 26 |
Exercises | p. 28 |
Distributive Justice | p. 29 |
The Veil of Ignorance | p. 29 |
The Difference Principle | p. 29 |
Refining the Difference Principle | p. 30 |
The Liberty Principle | p. 31 |
Exercises | p. 32 |
Mathematical Note 1 | p. 32 |
Mathematical Note 2 | p. 33 |
Notes | p. 33 |
Initial Case Studies | p. 34 |
Spying on Unilever | p. 34 |
Exercises | p. 35 |
A Damaged Car | p. 35 |
Exercises | p. 36 |
An insurance Broker's Dilemma | p. 37 |
Exercises | p. 37 |
Product Safety | p. 38 |
Exercises | p. 39 |
Misleading Numbers | p. 39 |
Exercises | p. 41 |
Health and Smoking Bans | p. 42 |
Exercises | p. 43 |
Notes | p. 45 |
MBA Student Dilemmas | p. 46 |
Being Honest with the Customer | p. 46 |
Exercises | p. 47 |
Paying for the Salad Bar | p. 48 |
Exercises | p. 48 |
The Boss's Unauthorized Expenses | p. 49 |
Exercises | p. 49 |
Accepting Free Tickets | p. 50 |
Exercises | p. 51 |
Unauthorized Salary Information | p. 51 |
Exercises | p. 51 |
Sacrificing the Old for the New | p. 52 |
Exercise | p. 53 |
Interviews after Accepting a Job | p. 53 |
Exercises | p. 57 |
Notes | p. 58 |
Business Case Studies | p. 59 |
Nortel and Income Smoothing | p. 59 |
Tires and Rollovers | p. 61 |
The Bullard Houses | p. 63 |
Marketing Prozac and Paxil | p. 66 |
Countrywide Financial and Subprime Mortgages | p. 68 |
Super Size Me | p. 74 |
Conoco's "Green" Oil Strategy | p. 77 |
Exercises | p. 80 |
Notes | p. 87 |
Cross-Cultural Ethics | p. 89 |
Cross-Cultural Decisions | p. 90 |
Relationships vs. Rules | p. 90 |
Cronyism and the Purchasing Agent | p. 91 |
Inappropriate Lawsuits | p. 91 |
Bribery | p. 92 |
Kickbacks in Taiwan | p. 92 |
Bribery in India | p. 93 |
Nepotism in China | p. 94 |
Accounting Fraud in North America | p. 94 |
Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa | p. 95 |
Side Payments in the Middle East | p. 96 |
Gifts to Korean Officials | p. 97 |
Dilemma in Côte d'lvoire | p. 97 |
Ethics and Human Nature | p. 99 |
Notes | p. 100 |
Index | p. 101 |
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