Suchergebnisse

1 / Can Ethics Provide Answers? -- 2 / The Concept of Moral Standing -- 3 / Why Should We be Moral? 41 -- 4 / Economic Justice in Hard Times -- 5 / Rights Versus Duties: No Contest -- 6 / Law and the Legislation of Morality -- 7 / Analytic Methods and the Ethics of Policy -- 8 / The American Pluralist Conception of Politics -- 9 / Minimalist Ethics: On the Pacification of Morality.

1 The Problem of Social Responsibility -- The Individual and the Corporate Enterprise -- Management Ethics: The Scope of the Book -- Ethical Duality -- The Language of Business Responsibility -- The Nature of the Business Enterprise: A Historical Overview -- Business and Ethics -- Business in a Multinational Environment -- Dilemmas: Some Examples -- Summary -- Notes -- 2 Symbiosis and Conflict: Political and Ethical Contrasts -- The Shrinking Universe -- Political-Economic Conflict -- Social-Ethical Contrasts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Philosophical Antecedents to Modern Thought -- The Four Perspectives of the Individual -- Pre-Christian Thought -- The Christian Ethic -- Medieval Scholasticism -- Machiavelli and Misunderstanding -- Social Philosophy -- Twentieth-Century Materialism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Ethical Management: Problems in Decision Making -- The Harsh Reality of Conscience -- Concorde: An Ethical Cul-de-Sac -- A Problem Taxonomy -- Extraorganizational Issues -- Intraorganizational Issues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Power, Authority, and Accountability -- The Scope of the Chapter -- The Structure of Power -- Power and Authority in the Firm -- Authority and Responsibility -- Accountability and the Social Audit -- Corporate Strategy and Business Responsibility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 A Guide to Management Ethics -- Ethical Model Building -- Education for Business Responsibility -- Social Marketing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Individual Behavior in Business -- Career Options and Motivations -- Motivation: A Survey of Management Attitudes -- Career Conduct: Ethical Conflict and Compromise -- Organizational Behavior: Some Experiments -- Mind and Matter: Inclination and Reality -- Culture, History, and Modern Behavior -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Citation Index.

Ethics, economics, and the law of property / Frank I. Michelman -- Professor Michelman's unnecessary and futile search for the philosopher's touchstone / Harold Demsetz -- Private property and the public domain : the case of antitrust / Richard A. Epstein -- The economic analysis of law / Jules L. Coleman -- Utility and rights / David Lyons -- Utilitarian justification for observance of legal rights / Kent Greenawalt -- Utility and rights : comment on David Lyon's essay / R.M. Hare -- Can utilitarianism justify any moral rights? / Alan Gewirth -- Rights, utility, and civil disobedience / Richard E. Flathman -- Utility and skepticism / George P. Fletcher -- Humanity and justice in global perspecive / Brian Barry -- On the need to politicize political morality : world hunger and moral obligation / Kai Nielsen -- Political functionalism and philosophical imperatives in the fight for a new economic order / Thomas M. Franck -- International distributive justice / David A.J. Richards -- Law an the imperatives of progress : private rights and public values in American legal history / Harry N. Scheiber

Contents -- Preface -- Introduction / Edmund S. Phelps -- Part 1 -- Gifts and Exchanges / Kenneth J. Arrow -- Economics of Trust, Altruism, and Corporate Responsibility / Roland N. McKean -- Business Responsibility and Economic Behavior / William J. Baumol -- Comment / Guido Calabresi -- Comment / Thomas Nagel -- Part 2 -- The Samaritan's Dilemma / James M. Buchanan -- The Indeterminancy of Game-Equilibrium Growth in the Absence of an Ethic / Edmund S. Phelps -- A Mathematical Note / Wilfried M. A. Pauwels -- Charity: Altruism or Cooperative Egoism? / Peter Hammond

I. Decision-making in business: amoral? -- II. Standards and values in the business enterprise -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The growing pluriformity of our value judgements -- 3. Ethical problems are nearly always problems of choice -- 4. The gap between moralists and entrepreneurs -- 5. The company's changing raison d'etre: towards unity of values and objectives -- 6. Choice is common to ethical action and economic action -- 7. Who is the bearer of the standards for an organisation? -- 8. Standards as actualised values -- III. Theses on man and private enterprise -- 1. On Man -- 2. On Man's Organisations -- 3. On Private Enterprise: Its Purposes and Responsibilities -- 4. On International Private Enterprise -- IV. A moral interregnum for multinationals in the Third World? -- 1. The nature of formal organizations -- 2. Personal responsibility -- 3. The need for an intermediate level of business ethos -- 4. The development gap -- 5. Some proposals -- 6. Conclusions -- V. Trade unionism and ethics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Individualism or collectivism? -- 3. The Christian-social idea -- 4. Some consequences for social ethics -- 5. The structure of the modern enterprise -- 6. A social bill of rights -- VI. Moral policy and public policy -- 1. The ethical component in public policy? -- 2. What makes public policy different? -- 3. Fetal research -- 4. Doctors, experts, politicians or laymen? -- 5. The backdrop -- VII. Power and legitimation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Personal and structural violence -- 3. Can power be legitimated? -- 4. Is the problem of legitimation correlated with seeking the truth? -- VIII. The social responsibility of business -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economic theory and ethics -- 3. The social responsibility of business -- IX. A reconnaissance into technology and ethics -- 1. A challenging offer -- 2. Narrowing consciousness -- 3. Research and development -- 4. Emancipation -- 5. Current questions concerning research and development -- 6. Agoraphobia -- 7. I am more than -- 8. Blinding specialization -- 9. Apparent illumination -- 10. Visible impotence -- 11. Still, the show must go on -- 12. Shocking information -- 13. Beyond science -- 14. Ethical problems are are-problems -- 15. World models only provide material -- 16. An ethical chat by the fire-side -- 17. Unschooled on wasteland -- X. The business corporation and human values -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The problem of organizational life -- 3. The need for a new organizational analysis -- 4. Effects of decision makers' myopia -- 5. The meaning of values -- 6. A new perspective -- 7. A new understanding of morality -- 8. The age of technology and its impact on human values -- 9. Conclusions -- XI. Ethics and profit -- 1. The illusion of objectivity -- 2. The meaning of ethics -- 3. Goals of business -- 4. Profit and ethics -- XII. Ethics and the science of decision-making in business: A specification of perspectives -- 1. Perspectives on science -- 2. Perspectives on decision-making -- 3. Perspectives on ethics -- XIII. Incorporating ethics in business decision-making -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Decision-making in business situations -- 3. Ethics and social responsibility -- 4. Incorporation of social responsibility in laws and guidelines -- 5. Goals of firms and participants in the decision-making process -- 6. Decision-makers and ethics -- 7. Conclusion.

1 / Philosophy and Ethical Principles -- Rule Utilitarianism and Decision Theory -- Marx and the Utility Approach to the Ethical Foundation of Microeconomics -- Endogenous Changes in Tastes: A Philosophical Discussion -- 2 / Social and Collective Choice Theory -- Nice Decision Schemes -- The Distribution of Rights in Society -- Acceptable Social Choice Lotteries -- Social Decision, Strategic Behavior, and Best Outcomes -- Cyclically Mixed Preferences—A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Transitivity of the Social Preference Relation -- Comparative Distributive Ethics: An Extension of Sen's Examination of the Pure Distribution Problem -- Rawls's Theory of Justice: An Impossibility Result -- Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: Some New Aspects -- Two Proofs of the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem on the Possibility of a Strategy-Proof Social Choice Function -- 3 / Special Topics in Social Choice -- Ethics, Institutions and Optimality -- Complexity and Social Decision Rules -- Discrete Optimization and Social Decision Methods -- The Equity Principle in Economic Behavior -- The Distributive Justice of Income Inequality -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.