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, […]
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Here is a nice solution to a problem. City governments are usually responsible for street signs. But they can be expensive–and this is an era of supposed budget cuts, it’s hard to impose new taxes, and so on. So why not get area businesses to sponsor the signs? Businesses will pay happily to get some
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John Allison on the financial crisis.
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Last year BusinessWeek magazine ranked Loyola University Chicago’s Business Ethics program Number One in the Country. So it is an honor to be part of the team as an adjunct professor this summer teaching the MBA course in Business Ethics (and to be able to enjoy LUC’s dynamic Water Tower location in beautiful downtown Chicago).
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An important editorial in The Washington Times about Elena Kagan, currently Solicitor General and nominee to the Supreme Court. (Thanks to Bob M. for the link.) The article contains a classic false alternative: “Ms. Kagan’s First Amendment work repeatedly promotes the idea that speech rights are granted by government rather than inherent in the God-given
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My essay, “Defending Shylock: Productive Work in Financial Markets,” is now available in pamphlet form at Amazon. The essay is also available for free at the Social Science Research Network. In this essay I discuss the great value that financial markets add to an economy and the nature of the intellectual work that underlays them.
On March 30, Jeffrey Orduno spoke at Rockford College on Property Rights and the Law. Mr. Orduno is a Rockford College alum, received his J.D. from John Marshall Law School, and is currently an associate in the law firm at McGreevy Williams, where his practice includes business litigation and transactions, as well as matters related
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Dr. William Kline, Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at the University of Illinois, Springfield, gave two talks this month at Rockford College. Here is my follow-up interview with him on the main points of his talk on business ethics (3 clips): The talk was sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and the above
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