A scenario of dismissal is used to illustrate a business ethical reflection that is guided by the method of reflective equilibrium. Several rules of dismissal are considered with respect to an already proved practice and to the goals of the corporation. The deliberation shows how the demand for...

Purpose – Regarding managers' sensemaking of ethical content, this paper aims to help understand how managers come to believe what is important for business ethics and to improve understanding about their ethical work orientations. Design/methodology/approach – The method used was a...

Hundreds of concepts have been proposed for describing how ethical issues in business should be defined. In this paper, I review how the six most commonly used concepts have been defined. This is a contribution to the international business ethics research, since hardly any academic work has...

Business ethics is the application of ethical principles to manage complex dilemmas. Business ethics asks, "What is right and wrong and good and bad ?" in business transactions. Ethical solutions may have more than one, or no "right" alternative (Yalcin et al., 2000). In this study, ethical...

For all of their focus on asset prices, financial economists rarely ask if assets are priced ethically—that is, if their prices are compatible with the public good. Yet in a world facing major, possibly catastrophic problems—global warming, for instance, and growing inequality—it is now...

Looks at all aspects of the pivotal intellectual relationship between two key figures of the EnlightenmentThis collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau scholars to explore the key shared concerns of these two great thinkers...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: The Market Paradox -- part ONE THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS AS THE NEW WORD OF GOD -- ONE Tenets of Economic Faith -- TWO A Secular Great Awakening -- part TWO THEOLOGICAL MESSAGES OF SAMUELSON’S ECONOMICS -- THREE The Market Mechanism...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: The Market Paradox -- Part ONE. THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS AS THE NEW WORD OF GOD -- ONE Tenets of Economic Faith -- TWO A Secular Great Awakening -- Part TWO. THEOLOGICAL MESSAGES OF SAMUELSON’S ECONOMICS -- THREE The Market Mechanism...

In Ethics in Economics , Jonathan B. Wight provides an overview of the role that ethical considerations play in economic debates. Whereas much of the field tends to focus on welfare outcomes, Wight calls for a deeper examination of the origin and evolution of our moral norms. He argues that...