Business Ethics Intro - These lectures will help you ace the midterm and final exams, I got an A as PDF

Title	Business Ethics Intro - These lectures will help you ace the midterm and final exams, I got an A as
Author	Caroline Gomez
Course	Moral/Ethical Dimension Of Bus
Institution	St. John's University
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These lectures will help you ace the midterm and final exams, I got an A as the final grade...

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Business Ethics Intro

What is Business Ethics?

Business Ethics – principles and standards that determine acceptable conduct in business

Business Ethics & Capitalism

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Business ethics generally applies to capitalist or mixed capitalist-socialist economies where:

a) Means of production can be privately owned b) Markets should play the most important role in the distribution of resources •

Question: Do you believe in a & b?

Business Ethics & Socialism

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Socialists/communists who deny these assumptions will see some debates in Business Ethics as misguided

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They think private ownership of the means of production is inherently unethical

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They think free markets as the main means of resource distribution are inherently unethical

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They think Business-for-profit at the expense of justice and fairness to everyone is unethical...