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IN THIS SECTION: 1.) BRIEF 2.) COMPREHENSIVE BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS: Contents Preface PART ONE Basic Principles Chapter 1 Ethics and Business Chapter 2 Ethical Principles in Business PART TWO The Market and Business Chapter 3 The Business System: Government, Markets, Chapter 4 Ethics in the Marketplace PART THREE Business and Its External Exchanges: Ecology and Consumers Chapter 5 Ethics and the Environment Chapter 6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing PART FOUR Business and Its Internal Constituencies Chapter 7 The Ethics of Job Discrimination Chapter 8 Ethics and the Employee Notes Index COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS: ContentsPreface PART ONE Basic Principles Chapter 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: WorldComs Whistleblower ON THE EDGE: Gun Manufacturers and Responsibility CASES FOR DISCUSSION Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Aaron Beam and the HealthSouth Fraud Chapter 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 Roches Drug Trials in China PART TWO The Market and Business Chapter 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: Marxs Children 3.5 Conclusion: The Mixed Economy, the New Property, and the End of Marxism ON THE EDGE: Napsters Lost Revolution ON THE EDGE: Brians Franchise CASES FOR DISCUSSION The GM Bailout Accolade versus Sega Chapter 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 Intels "Rebates" and Other Ways It "Helped" Customers Archer Daniels Midland and the Friendly Competitors PART THREE Business and Its External Exchanges: Ecology and Consumers Chapter 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: Fords 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? Chapter 6 The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing Introduction 6.1 Markets and Consumer Protection 6.2 The Contract View of Business Firms 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 Manufacturers 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 Chapter 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-Marts Women Notes Index