Ethics and capitalism
By: edited by John Douglas Bishop.
Contributors: Bishop, John Douglas.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Description: "Despite the great economic advantage of capitalism - that it is an efficient system of production and distribution - capitalist societies struggle with its by-products of poverty, exclusion, corruption, and environmental destruction. The essays in Ethics and Capitalism address the challenge of ensuring ethical and just societies within a capitalist system without sacrificing productivity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-230).
Table of contents: title: Ethics and capitalism : a guide to the issues / John Douglas Bishop; title: The justification of private property / Dan Usher; title: Capitalism versus democracy : the marketing of votes and the marketing of political power / David Copp; title: Gender and the 'separative self' in economics, ethics, and management / Julie A. Nelson; title: Business, globalization, and the logic and ethics of corruption / A.W. Cragg; title: Resistance is futile : aboriginal peoples meet the Borg of capitalism / David R. Newhouse; title: Capitalism, ethics, and ecology : the tyranny of the corporate agenda / Lionel Rubinoff; title: Can capitalism save itself? some ruminations of the fate of capitalism / Leo Groarke.