Liberty and Responsibility in Business and Beyond: Business Ethics for Better or Worse

Economics

Liberty and Responsibility in Business and Beyond: Business Ethics for Better or Worse

ABSTRACT

Businesses often feel duty bound to declare themselves in line with one or another program of social, environmental, or global stewardship. The conference explored these demands and measured them against the ethical demands already imposed by markets.

READING LIST

Conference Readings

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Bragues, George. “Business is One Thing, Ethics is Another: Revisiting Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees.” Business Ethics Quarterly 15, no. 2 (April 2005): 179-203.

Brennan, Jason and Peter M. Jaworski. Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Breyer, Friedrich and Joachim Weimann. “Of Morals, Markets and Mice: A Comment on Falk and Szech.” CESifo Working Paper 4745, Center for Economic Studies, Munich, April 2014. https://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome/publications/working-papers/CESifoWP/CESifoWPdetails?wp_id=19108796 (7/28/2017).

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Freeman, R. Edward, “A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation” In Ethical Theory and Business, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Norman Bowie, 55-64. Upper Saddle River: Pearson (Prentice Hall), 2004.

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Jensen, Michael C. “Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function.” Business Ethics Quarterly 22, no. 2 (April 2002): 235-256.

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MBA Oath. “MBA Oath Short and Long Forms.” MBA Oath. http://mbaoath.org/about/the-mba-oath/ (7/31/2017).

Sandel, Michael J. What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limit of Markets. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Staley, Oliver. “Goldman Harvard Recruit Pledges to Do No Harm, Fights for Oath.” Bloomberg News Agency. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-05-20/harvard-mba-graduates-pledge-to-take-ethics-oath-to-stop-goldman-lapses (7/31/2017).