" For over 2,000 years, banks have served to facilitate the exchange of money and to provide a variety of economic and financial services. During the most recent financial collapse and subsequent recession, beginning in 2008, banks have been vilified as perpetrators of the crisis, the public...

1. Labor Resists -- 2. Early Nineteenth-Century Changes -- 3. Examples of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Business Ethics in America -- 4. Rise of Industrialization -- 5. Ethics of the Firm and Strategic Behavior -- 6. John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil -- 7. Rise of the Big Retail Merchants -- 8....

This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today. It concentrates on American and British business history, delving into issues such as slavery, industrialization, firm behavior and monopolies, and Ponzi schemes. This book...