Business Ethics in the Social Context Law, Profits, and the Evolving
The book tracks the rise of Business Ethics as a discipline in the United States through a review of the basic understandings of the role of business practices in the operations of society, beginning with Aristotle and proceeding to a review of the format
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Lisa Newton
Business Ethics in the Social Context Law, Profits, and the Evolving Moral Practice of Business
SpringerBriefs in Ethics
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Lisa Newton
Business Ethics in the Social Context Law, Profits, and the Evolving Moral Practice of Business
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Lisa Newton Shelburne, VT USA
ISSN 2211-8101 ISBN 978-3-319-00869-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-00870-7
ISSN 2211-811X (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-00870-7 (eBook)
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Prefatory Note
This book comprises teaching materials I began to put together for the sake of my colleagues in Philosophy and other liberal arts disciplines, in the late 1970s and 1980s. Why then, and why them? The 1960s and 1970s had seen a number of private sector scandals, bribery at home and abroad (Lockheed Aircraft and others), discrimination in hiring and promotion, challenges to product integrity (Goodrich Brakes is a good example), Truth in Advertising (children’s television came in for special opprobrium), and the early cases of environmental degradation (Reserve Mining, for instance). Ralph Nader had stirred the country to a
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