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Table of Contents:
Contents Preface   PART ONE Basic Principles   1 Ethics and Business Introduction 1.1 The Nature of Business Ethics ON THE EDGE: Was National Semiconductor Morally Responsible? 1.2 Ethical Issues in Business ON THE EDGE: A Traditional Business 1.3 Moral Responsibility and Blame ON THE EDGE: WorldCom’s Whistleblower ON THE EDGE: Gun Manufacturers and Responsibility CASES FOR DISCUSSION Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Aaron Beam and the HealthSouth Fraud   2 Ethical Principles in Business Introduction 2.1 Utilitarianism: Weighing Social Costs and Benefits 2.2 Rights and Duties ON THE EDGE: Should Companies Dump Their Wastes In Poor Countries? ON THE EDGE: Working for Eli Lilly & Company ON THE EDGE: Conflict Diamonds ON THE EDGE: ExxonMobil, Amerada Hess, and Marathon Oil in Equatorial Guinea CASES FOR DISCUSSION Traidos Bank and Roche’s Drug Trials in China   PART TWO The Market and Business   3 The Business System: Government, Markets, and International Trade Introduction 3.1 Free Markets and Rights: John Locke 3.2 Free Markets and Utility: Adam Smith 3.3 Free Trade and Utility: David Ricardo 3.4 Marx and Justice: Criticizing Markets and Free Trade ON THE EDGE: Commodification or How Free Should Free Markets Be? ON THE EDGE: Marx’s Children 3.5 Conclusion: The Mixed Economy, the New Property, and the End of Marxism ON THE EDGE: Napster’s Lost Revolution ON THE EDGE: Brian’s Franchise CASES FOR DISCUSSION The GM Bailout Accolade versus Sega   4 Ethics in the Marketplace Introduction 4.1 Perfect Competition 4.2 Monopoly Competition ON THE EDGE: Drug Company Monopolies and Profits 4.3 Oligopolistic Competition 4.4 Oligopolies and Public Policy ON THE EDGE: Fixing the Computer Memory Market ON THE EDGE: Oracle and Peoplesoft CASES FOR DISCUSSION Intel’s “Rebates” and Other Ways It “Helped” Customers Archer Daniels Midland and the Friendly Competitors   PART THREE Business and Its External Exchanges: Ecology and Consumers   5 Ethics and the Environment Introduction 5.1 The Dimensions of Pollution and Resource Depletion 5.2 The Ethics of Pollution Control 5.3 The Ethics of Conserving Depletable Resources ON THE EDGE: Ford’s Toxic Wastes ON THE EDGE: The Auto Companies in China ON THE EDGE: Exporting Poison CASES FOR DISCUSSION The Ok Tedi Copper Mine Gas or Grouse?   6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing Introduction 6.1 Markets and Consumer Protection 6.2 The Contract View of Business Firm’s Duties to Consumers 6.3 The Due Care Theory ON THE EDGE: The Tobacco Companies and Product Safety 6.4 The Social Costs View of the Manufacturer’s Duties ON THE EDGE: Selling Personalized Genetics 6.5 Advertising Ethics ON THE EDGE: Advertising Death to Kids? ON THE EDGE: New Balance and the “Made in USA” Label 6.6 Consumer Privacy CASES FOR DISCUSSION Becton Dickinson and Needle Sticks Reducing Debts at Credit Solutions of America   PART FOUR Business and Its Internal Constituencies   7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination Introduction 7.1 Job Discrimination: Its Nature ON THE EDGE: Helping Patients at Plainfield Healthcare Center 7.2 Discrimination: Its Extent 7.3 DISCRIMINATION: UTILITY, RIGHTS, AND JUSTICE 7.4 Affirmative Action ON THE EDGE: Driving for Old Dominion ON THE EDGE: Peter Oiler and Winn-Dixie Stores CASES FOR DISCUSSION Should Kroger pay now for what a Ralphs’ Employee did in the Past Wal-Mart’s Women   8 Ethics and the Employee Introduction 8.1 The Rational Organization 8.2 The Political Organization 8.3 The Caring Organization ON THE EDGE: HP’s Secrets and Oracle’s New Hire ON THE EDGE: Insider Trading or: What Are Friends For? ON THE EDGE: Delivering Pizza ON THE EDGE: Sergeant Quon’s Text Messages ON THE EDGE: Employment at Will at Howmet Corporation? CASES FOR DISCUSSION Death at Massey Energy Company Who Should Pay? Notes Index