Preface

I INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS ETHICS: FROM OXYMORON TO LOGIC

Introduction: Taking Ethics Seriously---Moral Relativism versus Moral Realism

Sterling Harwood

Against MacIntyre's Relativistic Communitarianism

Sterling Harwood

What's the Point of a Business Ethics Course?

Ronald F. Duska

II FIVE ETHICAL THEORIES TO APPLY TO USUAL BUSINESS PRACTICES: FROM SECULAR SAINTS TO EXPERIENCE MACHINES

Introduction: Basic Definitions of Five Major Moral Theories

Sterling Harwood

Saint Ralph

Michael Kinsley

Arguments for Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

Eleven Objections to Utilitarianism

Sterling Harwood

Arguments for Libertarianism

John Hospers

Why Libertarianism Is Mistaken

Hugh LaFollette

Quotations Concerning Libertarianism (Often Called Classical Liberalism)

Quee Nelson

Arguments for Egalitarianism

Joel Feinberg

Why Egalitarianism Is Mistaken

Louis P. Pojman

Why Be Moral?: A Definition and Defense of Humanism

Sterling Harwood

Benevolence

Sterling Harwood

Accountability

Sterling Harwood

Prescriptivism

Sterling Harwood

Needs

Sterling Harwood

III CULTURAL CHALLENGES TO BUSINESS AS USUAL: FROM RACISM TO THE RAT RACE

Introduction: The Pros and Cons of Affirmative Action

Sterling Harwood

The Justice of Affirmative Action

Sterling Harwood

Against Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference

Shelby Steele

Affirmative Action Is Justified: A Reply to Newton

Sterling Harwood

City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Company

The Case of Racism in the 1990s

Learning to Love Your Corporate Culture

Michael Lewis

Bribery: It Is Accepted Cross-Culturally Yet Is Wrong

John T. Noonan, Jr.

Confucian Ethics and Japanese Management Practices

Marc J. Dollinger

The Case of Boycotting the Beatles

Nicholas Schaffner

Profiting from Evil: The Case of Charles Manson and Axl Rose

Phil Rosenthal

The Myth that Merit Is Always Recognized

Ronald Duncan

IV FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO BUSINESS AS USUAL: FROM SEXISM TO GENDER BENDERS

Introduction: A Statistical Portrait

Sterling Harwood

Gender Benders: How Many Sexes Are There?

Anne Fausto-Sterling

10 Million Dead Babies a Year: The Case of Breast-Feeding versus Bottle-Feeding in the Third World

Bigger Breasts: The Great Implant Lie

Robert Scheer

The Money of Playboy Magazine

Catherine A. MacKinnon

A Defense of Pornography

F. M. Christensen

Womb for Rent: Surrogate Motherhood and the Case of Baby M

Anita Silvers

Sterling Harwood

Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc.

Has the Women's Movement Been Disastrous?: A Firing Line Debate

Women's Work: Views from the History of Philosophy

Linda Nicholson

Heelan v. Johns-Manville Corp.

Love in the Boardroom: The Case of Mary Cunningham and William Agee

Michael Kinsley

Family Values: The Case of Parental Leave and the Business of Bringing Up Baby

Margaret E. Meiers

The Case of Comparable Worth

Judith Olans Brown

Phyllis Tropper Baumann

Elaine Millar Melnick

V PRIVACY CHALLENGES TO BUSINESS AS USUAL: FROM NAKED CONSUMERS TO THE CIA

Introduction

Sterling Harwood

Can Whistleblowing Be Fully Legitimated?

Natalie Dandekar

The Naked Consumer and the Trojan Teddy: How Business Knows Where You Live

Erik Larson

Luedtke v. Nabors Alaska Drilling, Inc.

Futurecraft v. Clary Corp.

Shh!: Trade and Corporate Secrecy

Sissela Bok

Industrial Spies and the End of the Cold War: The CIA in Search of Something to Do

Doug Vaughan

The Ethics of Genetic Screening in the Workplace

Joseph H. Kupfer

In the Closet?: The Politics of Homosexuality

Andrew Sullivan

VI POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES TO BUSINESS AS USUAL: FROM CLASS TO CRASS

Introduction: Is Inheritance Immoral?

Sterling Harwood

SECTION A CAPITALISM VERSUS SOCIALISM

Father of Economics and Moral Philosopher: Adam Smith Was No Gordon Gekko

Sylvia Nasar

Why the Rich Get Richer: Because the Fed Is Engineering a Recession for the Rest of Us

William Greider

Out of Left Field: Socialism's Challenge to Capitalism

Bertell Ollman

Income Comparisons by State, Including the District of Columbia

A Critique of Socialism: Problems with Marxism

Leslie Stevenson

Madisonian Democracy and Marxist Analysis: Ryder on the Constitution

Sterling Harwood

Why Have Labor Unions?

American Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc., v. Raymond J. Donovan, Secretary of Labor

What's Left and Who's Right?

Mark Green

The American Paradox of Poverty amid Plenty: Morally Evaluating the Welfare State

Sterling Harwood

SECTION B MARKETING AND MORALITY

The Case of the Professor's Free and Well-Read Textbook

Franklin B. Krohn

The Nicotine War

Temptation

Sterling Harwood

An Amoral, Dispositional Account of Weakness of Will

Sterling Harwood

The Ethics of Psychoactive Ads

Michael R. Hyman

Richard Tansey

Fraud

Sterling Harwood

The Oil Seller

Lu Tung Pin

Federal Trade Commission v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. et al

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can!: The Case of Snevellicci v. Arthur Murray, Inc.

Libel

Sterling Harwood

The Case of the Disappearing Reference in Marketing Your Skills: Even Good Employees Can't Get Raves

Pat Butler

Ford Pintos, GM Trucks, and Media Distortions

Peter Hadreas

Closing Arguments to the Jury in the Classic Ford Pinto Case

Jury System

Sterling Harwood

Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. and Chrysler Corporation

Road Kill

Toronto Sun

Food and Welfare State Capitalism: A Success Story

African Philosophy and Agribusiness

Leo Apostel

Food and Third World ``Economic Miracles'': An Interview with Noam Chomsky

SECTION C TOUGH, HARD-BOILED CORPORATE TYPES AND THEIR FINANCIAL EMPIRES

Strongmen

Michael Kinsley

Machiavelli's Prince as CEO

Kendall D'Andrade

Selected Quotations from Machiavelli

The Day the American Empire Ran Out of Gas

Gore Vidal

The Diamond Empire

Jettison the Policy of Human Rights

Alan Tonelson

Rally 'round Human Rights

Michael Posner

In Praise of Idleness

Bertrand Russell

Head to Head

Lester Thurow

Free Trade and the Decline of Democracy

Ralph Nader

VII ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES TO BUSINESS AS USUAL: FROM THE GREENBACKS TO THE GREENS AND FROM THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT TO THE GREEN REVOLUTION

Introduction

Sterling Harwood

Mass Extinction: We Lose 50 to 150 Species Every Day

Norman Myers

Scientists and Shamans: The Case of Tropical Rainforests

Aubrey Wallace

Animal Rights: The Case of Selling Out Pets to Science

Judith Reitman

The Threat of Global Warming

Claudine Schneider

Errors of Environmentalism

Rush Limbaugh III

The Threat of Acid Rain and the Ozone Hole

George Reiger

State Department of Environmental Protection v. Ventron Corp.

The Case of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

The Case of the Killer Smog of 1952: In Four Days 4,000 Died in London

William Wise

We All Live in Bhopal: The Case of Union Carbide and More

David Watson

The High Cost of High Tech: The Dark Side of the Chip

Lenny Siegel

John Markoff

The Case of Nuclear Power

Denis Hayes

APPENDICES

Appendix A Guidelines for Writing Papers in Business Ethics

Appendix B Conventional Wisdom Is Self-contradictory: Why Is Common Sense So Nonsensical?

Appendix C Selected Bibliography of over 300 Works on Affirmative Action

Sterling Harwood

Tracy Russ

Index