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- business ethics, social policy, labor economics, developmental economics, stakeholder theory
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Government interference in free enterprise is growing. Should they intercede in business ethics and corporate responsibility; and if so, to what extent? The Morality of Business: A Profession for Human Wealthcare goes beyond the utilitarian case in discussing the various elements of business ethics, social policy, job security, outsourcing, government regulation, stakeholder theory, advertising and property rights.
"Professor Machan has done it again! Profit seeking behavior by business is ethical and prudent, but it only can be ethical when a person is free, and that depends upon having private property rights. Business ethics is not about ‘corporate citizenship,’ as so many others seem to believe. The contemplative life, so highly valued by many in academe, is made possible by the success of those in commerce. Which one lives a more ethical life? Read Machan’s, The Morality of Business for his answer."
-Don Booth, Chapman University, California, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tibor R. Machan is a Hoover research fellow, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and holds the R. C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University.
Machan has written more than a dozen books in epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and business ethics and has co-edited more than 20 books with contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers in political economy. He has taught at Auburn University, UCSB, Franklin College, Switzerland, the US Military Academy, West Point and Chapman University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Morality of Business
Book Subtitle: A Profession for Human Wealthcare
Authors: Tibor R. Machan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48907-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-48906-3Published: 27 February 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4312-5Published: 04 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-48907-0Published: 11 January 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 138
Topics: Business Ethics, Social Policy, Labor Economics, Development Economics, Management