Part 1 - The Moral Landscape of Business

The Market System and Its Critics

1. Eugene Bucholz, Elements of the Market System

2 Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

3. Ayn Rand, Capitalism

4. John Rawls, An Egalitarian Theory of Justice

5. Carl Cohen, Socialist Democracy

6. Trudy Govier, The Right to Eat and the Duty to Work

7. P.Ulrich and U. Thielmann How Do Managers Think about Market Economies and Morality?

The Theoretical Backdrop of Business Ethics

8. Velasquez, Andre, Shanks and Meyer, Thinking Ethically: A Framework for Moral Decision Making.

Maria Elena case (access through the main Santa Clara Ethics site)

9. John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

10. Immanuel Kant, The Ethics of Duty

11. James Nickel, Economic Rights

12 Aristotle, The Ethics of Virtue

13. Daryl Koehn, A Role for Virtue Ethics in the Analysis of Business Practice

14. Jean Grimshaw, The Idea of a Female Ethic

15.Jeanne Liedtka, Feminist Morality and Competitive Reality

16. Laura Nash, Ethics without the Sermon

17. Claudia Mills, How Good a Person Do I Have To Be?

The Moral Status of Corporations

Milton Friedman,  The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits


William Evan and R. Edward Freeman, A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation: Kantian Capitalism


Moving from Theory to Practice

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