My review of Kevin Gibson’s Ethics and Business: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2007) is now out in the current issue of Teaching Philosophy. The review is behind the subscriber wall but will be publicly available eventually.
From my introductory section:
“Gibson’s approach is middle-of-the-road in the content of his beliefs about business and ethics, so this is a mainstream publication. As such Ethics and Business embodies the strengths of the mainstream—and a few of its weaknesses. So from the perspective of someone outside the mainstream, let me indicate what I take those weaknesses to be in the context of reviewing a textbook written for students. …”
Update:
Topics covered in the review:
* Criteria for evaluating textbooks in business ethics.
* The Concession versus Contractual theories of corporations.
* The Perfect Information assumption.
* Capitalism versus the mixed economy.
* What egoism is: Machiavelli and Hobbes versus Aristotle and Rand.
* Theory-heavy versus case-study approaches to business ethics.
* The Bhopal disaster in India.
Here are 13-minute audio versions of the review in MP3 or at YouTube and a a PDF version of the original print edition.