Joseph Heath
1) Ethics for capitalists: a systematic approach to business ethics, competition, and market failure
Author
Publisher
Friesen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ethics for Capitalists offers a powerful new statement of the Market Failures Approach to business ethics. While the competitive context of the market economy provides economic actors greater freedom to pursue their interests, it also imposes moral constraints on the range of strategies they may employ. The pursuit of profit must be consistent with the overall objective of market institutions, which is to promote efficiency in the production and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of provocative essays, Joseph Heath provides a compelling new framework for thinking about the moral obligations that private actors in a market economy have toward each other and to society. In a sharp break with traditional approaches to business ethics, Heath argues that the basic principles of corporate social responsibility are already implicit in the institutional norms that structure both marketplace competition and the...