All Posts Tagged With: "business ethics"
The Bourgeois Virtues and Consumer Ethics
When people in the market display particularly virtuous behavior, we as consumers should feel obligated to reward it, and not just because we think it will encourage more of it.
4Aug2011 | Steven Horwitz | 25 comments | ContinuedClassical Liberalism in the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Norman P. Barry
Longtime readers of The Freeman may have noticed the absence of articles by Norman Barry. A contributing editor, Barry died in October 2008, at the age of 64. (His last Freeman article, “The Americanization of Japan,” was published in May 2007). This splendid volume, which had been in the works before Barry’s death, contains one [...]
22Oct2010 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Theory of the Corporation
Ever a topic of dispute for observers of capitalism, the corporation has been undergoing increased scrutiny in the light of current business scandals. While other forms of capitalist enterprise, such as partnerships and single proprietorships, have avoided some of the wrath of socialist agitators, the limited-liability corporation, public or private, has had to endure the [...]
1Mar2003 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Stakeholder Fallacy
Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998). As the saying goes: “There is more than one way to skin a cat.” And former collectivists, embarrassed by the dismal failure of economic planning to provide any kind [...]
1Mar2000 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedHenry Grady Weaver’s Classic Vision of Freedom
John Hood is the president of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press, 1996). This essay is an expanded version of Mr. Hood’s introduction to the third edition of The Mainspring of Human Progress by Henry Grady Weaver, published [...]
1Aug1997 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Business-Ethics Quagmire
Karol Boudreaux teaches Business Law and Business Ethics at Clemson University. Under pressure from accreditation agencies, business schools have begun requiring a class in “business ethics” for undergraduate business majors and MBA students. The ostensible purpose is to familiarize students with potential ethical dilemmas common in the business world. Is the course necessary? Some critics [...]
1Jan1996 | Karol Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued-
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