Markets, Ethics and Business Ethics Plus MySearchLab with eText -- Access Card Package

by Scalet, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780205887750
• ISBN10: 0205887759
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2013-10-02
• Publisher: Pearson

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Promotes a deeper understanding of markets, corporate responsibility and business ethics

 

Markets, Ethics, and Business Ethics provides an introductory discussion on basic, challenging concepts of business ethics: markets, property rights, law, and corporations.This title presents a balance of institutional perspectives and the concrete decisions people make within those institutions. The text studies the rules and incentives of a business system as well as the ethical decisions that people confront within their roles as consumers, investors, managers, owners, employees, and citizens.

 

Author Biography

Steven Scalet received his Ph.D in philosophy and M.A. in Economics at the University of Arizona. He taught at Binghamton University (SUNY) for a decade, where he directed the Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Law and was an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Economics. Professor Scalet is the recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He taught a popular course called “Markets, Ethics, and Law” that enrolled thousands of students and included many discussions related to the topics of this book  He has frequently lectured on topics of corporate responsibility and the nature of democracy as a Speaker for the New York Council for the Humanities. Professor Scalet has published many articles in applied ethics and political philosophy, and is currently an Associate Professor of philosophy and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Baltimore (USM). He lives in the Baltimore area with his wife Debby and daughter Sophia.

Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Introduction: The Approach of the Book, Chapter Previews, A Primer on Ethics

I. BASIC CONCEPTS

Chapter 1. Markets

Chapter 2. The Nature of Property

Chapter 3. Property Rights, Markets, and Law

II. CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Chapter 4. The Stockholder View of Corporate Responsibility

Chapter 5. The Stakeholder View of Corporate Responsibility

III. EFFICIENCY AND WELFARE: THE MOST COMMON ETHICAL GUIDES IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

Chapter 6. Efficiency and Welfare

Chapter 7. Public Goods and the Utilitarian Tradition

Chapter 8. The Invisible Hand: Assessing the Dance Between Ethics, Incentives, Chapter 9. Institutions

IV. ETHICS AND BEYOND EFFICIENCY 

Chapter 10. Freedom 

Chapter 11. Rights 

Chapter 12. Equality 

Chapter 13. What People Deserve

Chapter 14. Relationships and Character

Chapter 15. Community and the Common Good

V. THE POINT OF ETHICS

Chapter 16. The Value of An Ethical Life