Ignorance is impotence. Only with knowledge can the good can be achieved, errors avoided, and problems diagnosed. Selling and buying raises, for example, issues of fraud, liability, caveat emptor, and bluffing. Employment raises issues of merit versus affirmative action, the status of unions, drug testing and privacy, and whistle-blowing. Financial markets raise questions about the moral status of corporate raiders, junk bonds, and the property status of information.
Corporations enjoy a special legal status, so there are questions about why corporations deserve it.
And complicating all of these areas is the question of the proper scope of the government's involvement. In each of these areas, business professionals make errors, some of them dishonest. Contracts are broken, lies are told, employees are treated arbitrarily, employees steal, confidential information is revealed, cons are pulled, politicians are blackmailed, bad checks are written. But despite the errors and immoralities that occur in the complex world of big business, the crucial fact is that the same fundamental moral appraisal of business applies. A university is more complex than a one-room school house, but the same positive moral appraisal of education applies to both, no matter how many more opportunities for errors and corruption the complex nature of the university allows.