Moral Issues in Business

by William H. Shaw and Vincent E. Barry

Book Overview

MORAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS, 13E examines the moral dilemmas that are common to today's business climate and gives readers the analytical tools to resolve those issues. Using a combination of true... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 049500717X
• ISBN13: 9780495007173
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 630 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Would buy from this merchant again!

The book was in great condition as stated in the website. Much better than expected for a used book.

Ralph Nader is right!

This should be required reading in high school (or at SOME point in educational development). There's no morality in capitalism, and there's no underestimating the stranglehold Big Business has on "our" government. It's too bad Ralph Nader finally flipped out because his message is too important to be ignored.

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Medicore review of reviews

4 stars= some good arguments to consider, and issues it provokes. Being a philisopher student, some of these arguments are strong. Nuntius said: "Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman" were skipped in discussion. I know that Friedman was well included, in the case studies and in some chapters. Look at 4.3 for a real focus. He also said that "Like ssaber, I was disappointed to find a three page "defense" of capitalism and a ten page attack of it in Chapter 4, "The Nature of Capitalism."" I noticed a sentence stating that we can't dismiss a capitalist society because of the fact of where it brought us, where as the other systems didn't do so well. Therefore, I wouldn't really consider this a dismiss on capitalism. For example, in page 158, they say "The debate over capitalism is a large and important one; the presentation that follows should be viewed as a stimulus to further discussion and not as the last word on th pros and cons of capitalism." Furthermore, "complete coverage of capitalism's features has filled many books" (154). This clearly states what the authors intend, as a mere stimulus. In fact, having a whole chapter seems to be sufficient to their intent. Maybe they can expand the subject to add more back and forth criticisms, but we know that debate can be long. As long as they made that statement of it merely being a stimulus, I'm ok with it. After all, capitalism is a very new concept with the foundation of the industrial revolution. Of course debate should ensue. But I guess they should end the chapter stating the "nonetheless, a capitalist framework has got us great heights." God Bless. -NVS

As a response to comments by "ssaber"

Well, I happen to disagree with previous comment. Not only did I like the course, I also liked the book. It wasn't an easy reading, I got to tell you. Sometimes it took more than one reading and several minutes or reflecting to figure out what the authors were talking about. But in the end it all made sense. And as a bonus the book went into great detail on philosophy, psychology, political science, and economics which I found quite helpful, since as a business major I didn't have a chance to take courses in first three subjects mentioned. The best thing, however, was, that almost a year later in packed Helsinki bar, I was able for about 15 minutes to talk about greatest German and French philosophers - all about them I learned from this book.