Insights into a compassionate alternative to a ruthlessly self-interested capitalist culture Societally sanctioned competition for money, power, and fame promotes selfishness, personal alienation, and widespread inequality, especially in market-oriented economies. Yet many of those engaging in this competitive individualism-the competition for ......
Conversations with Social Innovators on the Power of Communities Everywh
Featuring social innovators with decades of experience working with their communities across America, America's Path Forward looks at twenty-two deep, idea-packed conversations. These narratives share analysis, practical insights, and policy recommendations-on how to gain common ground, get the country unstuck, and increase wellbeing for all.
This book presents a Buddhism-inspired contribution to the ethics of AI and robotics, and the idea that a possible norm for technology must be guided by the standard of machine enlightenment informed by a combination of ethical and technical excellences.
The Moral Case for Profit Maximization considers the moral status of profit maximization, arguing that profit maximization is moral when businessmen seek to maximize profit by forming values and cultivating the virtues.
New Technologies of Government and their Implications for Value
This book brings management and organisational theory into dialogue with political thought and philosophy. It explains the allure of managerialism in relation to contemporary ethical and political perplexities and shows how managerialism displaces the question of authority and its relationship to politics, government and the professions.
This book examines the ethics behind conflicts of interest in the context of business and focuses on the foundations of moral philosophy that inform our understanding of ethics.
Preventing a Separation of the Honorable and the Useful
This book develops a Credo for honorable entrepreneurs dedicated to freedom and general human flourishing, based on work by Aristotle and the giants of moral, political, and economic thinking. It explores how entrepreneurs can prevent a separation of the honorable and the useful, a moral challenge faced by leaders in all parts of society.
Workers in distant nations who produce the products we buy frequently suffer from accidents, managerial malfeasance, and injustice. Are consumers who bought the products made by these workers in any way morally responsible for those injustices? And what about the far more frequent, less severe injustices, such as the withholding of wages, the ......
