WEEK I: Monday, July 8-Thursday, July 11
Business Ethics and the Nature of the Corporation
Readings:
· Norman Bowie: “A Kantian Approach To Business Ethics”
· Daniel Bell: “The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism”
· Albert Z. Carr: “Is Business Bluffing Ethical?”
· Milton Friedman: “The Social Responsibility of Corporations Is To Increase Its Profits”
WEEK II: Monday, July 15-Thursday, July 18
Monday 7/15: First Examination (in class), first hour
Thursday 7/18: Distribution of Second Examination (take-home)
Treatment of Employees, Diversity, and Discrimination
Readings:
· Tara J. Radin And Patricia H. Werhane: “Employment-at-Will, Employee Rights, and Future Directions for Employment”
· Vaughana Macy Feary: “Sexual Harassment: Why the Corporate World Still Doesn’t ‘Get It’”
· Joni Hersch: “Sexual Harassment in the Workplace”
· George Sher: “Diversity”
· Tom L. Beauchamp: “In Defense of Affirmative Action”
· Robert A. Larmer: “Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty”
WEEK III: Monday, July 22-Thursday, July 25
Monday 7/22: Second Examination due at class time
Consumers, Marketing, and the Disclosure of Information
Readings:
· Peter Huber: “Liability”
· Judith Jarvis Thompson: “Remarks on Causation and Liability”
· Shelly Kagan: “Causation, Liability, and Internalism”
· Robert L. Arrington: “Advertising And Behavior Control”
· John Kenneth Galbraith: “The Dependence Effect”
· Friedrich Hayek: “The Non Sequitur Of The Dependence Effect”
· Brian J. Adams, Tod Perry and Colin Mahoney: “The Challenges of Detection and Enforcement of Insider Trading”
· Tibor Machan: “What’s Right about Insider Trading?”
WEEK IV: Monday, July 29-Thursday, August 1
Monday 7/29: Third Examination (in class), first hour
Thursday 8/1: Distribution of Fourth Examination (take-home)
International Business and the Environment
Readings:
· Richard T. DeGeorge: “International Business Ethics”
· Thomas Donaldson: “Values In Tension: Ethics Away From Home”
· Denis G. Arnold and Norman E. Bowie: “Sweatshops And Respect For Persons”
· Ian Maitland: “The Great Non-Debate Over International Sweatshops”
· Mark Sagoff: “At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions are not all Economic”
· William Baxter: “People or Penguins”
WEEK V: Monday, August 5-Friday, August 9
Monday 8/5: Fourth Examination due at class time
Friday 8/9: Fifth Examination (in class)
Social and Economic Justice
Readings:
· Jeffrey Moriarty: “Do CEOs Get Paid Too Much?”
· Jonathan Oberlander: “Between Liberal Aspirations and Market Forces”
· John Rawls: “Justice as Fairness”
· Robert Nozick: “Anarchy, State and Utopia”
· Irving Kristol: “Capitalism, Socialism, and Nihilism”
Sources
· In addition to the readings listed here, we will consider a case study in each class
· All readings will be provided on the course website