Preface
1 Ethics and Business
1.1 The Nature of Business Ethics
1.2 Moral Reasoning and Moral Decision Making
1.3 Ethical Issues in International Business
1.4 Foundations of Moral Reasoning
1.5 Moral Responsibility and Blame
Case Study 1.1 : Slavery in the Chocolate Industry
Case Study 1.2 : Aaron Beam and the HealthSouth Fraud
Summary
2 Ethical Principles in Business
2.1 Approaches to Moral Decision-Making
2.2 Utilitarianism: Weighing Social Costs and Benefits
2.3 Rights and Duties
2.4 Justice and Fairness
2.5 An Ethic of Care
2.6 Integrating Utility, Rights, Justice, and Caring
2.7 An Alternative to Moral Principles: Virtue Ethics
2.8 Unconscious and Conscious Moral Decisions
Case Study 2.1: Testing Drugs in the Developing World
Summary
3 The Business System: Government, Markets, and International Trade
3.1 Globalization and the Business System
3.2 Free Markets and Rights: John Locke
3.3 Free Markets and Utility: Adam Smith
3.4 Free Trade and Utility: David Ricardo
3.5 Karl Marx and Justice: A Critique of Free Markets and Free Trade
3.6 The Mixed Economy and New Forms of Property
Case Study 3.1: The GM Bailout
Case Study 3.2: Accolade versus Sega
Summary
4 Ethics in the Marketplace
4.1 Applying Ethics to Market Competition
4.2 Perfect Competition
4.3 Monopoly Competition
4.4 Oligopolistic Competition
4.5 Oligopolies and Public Policy
Case Study 4.1: Intel's Rebates and Other Ways It "Helped" Customers
Case Study 4.2 : Archer Daniels Midland and the Friendly Competitors
Summary
5 Ethics and the Environment
5.1 The Dimensions of Pollution and Resource Depletion
5.2 The Ethics of Pollution Control
5.3 Remedies and Duties of the Firm
5.4 The Ethics of Conserving Resources
Case Study 5.1: The Ok Tedi Copper Mine
Case Study 5.2: Gas or Grouse?
Summary
6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
6.1 Everyday Consumer Risks
6.2 Markets and Consumer Protection
6.3 The Contractual View of the Manufacturer's Duties to Consumers
6.4 The Due-Care View of the Manufacturer's Duties to Consumers
6.5 The Social Costs View of the Manufacturer's Duties to Consumers
6.6 Advertising Ethics
6.7 Consumer Privacy
Case Study 6.1 : Reducing Debt at Credit Solutions of America
Summary
7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination
7.1 Divided over Discrimination
7.2 The Nature of Job Discrimination
7.3 The Extent of Discrimination in the United States
7.4 Discrimination: Utility, Rights, and Justice
7.5 Affirmative Action
Case Study 7.1: Wal-Mart's Women
Summary
8 Ethics and the Employee
8.1 The Rational Organization
8.2 The Political Organization
8.3 Informal Power Relationships in Organizations
8.4 The Caring Organization
Case Study 8.1: Who Should Pay?
Summary
Glossary
Notes