A. THE MORAL AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORK OF BUSINESS

I. Introduction: Markets and Business
Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdzell, Jr., "How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World"
Ludwig von Mises, "The Market"
Elizabeth Anderson, "The Ethical Limitations of the Market"
Elaine Sternberg, "The Nature of Business"

II. Justice
F. A. Hayek, "Principles of a Liberal Social Order"
John Rawls, "Justice as Fairness"
Robert Nozick, "The Entitlement Theory of Justice"
Kai Nielsen, "A Moral Case for Socialism"

III. Regulation
Nicholas Rescher, "On the Rationale of Governmental Regulation"
Cass Sunstein, "Paradoxes of the Regulatory State"
Leland Yeager, "Is there a Bias Toward Overregulation?"
Ian Maitland, "The Limits of Business Self-Regulation"

IV. The Moral Conditions of Commerce
Bernard Mandeville, "The Grumbling Hive"
Max Weber, "Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism"
F. A. Hayek, "The Market Order or Catallaxy" and "The Discipline of Abstract Rules and the Emotions of the Tribal Society"

V. Ethical Theory
Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics"
Kant, excerpt from Section Two of "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals"
Mill, "What Utilitarianism Is"


B. VICE AND VIRTUE IN THE CONDUCT OF BUSINESS

I. Character and Commerce
Samuel Smiles, "Business Qualities"
Robert C. Solomon, "Business and the Humanities: An Aristotelian Approach to Business Ethics"
Deirdre McCloskey, "Bourgeois Virtue"

Selfishness
Ayn Rand, "The Meaning of Money" and "The Moral Meaning of Capitalism"
Philip Wicksteed, "Business and the Economic Nexus"

Prudence
Adam Smith, "Of Prudence"
H. J. N. Horsburgh, "Prudence"

Generosity
Aristotle, "Liberality"
Tibor Machan, "Dimensions of Generosity"

Manners
Sarah Buss, "Appearing Respectful: The Moral Significance of Manners"
H. Tristam Engelhardt, Jr. "Why Do It? Because That's What We Do: Manners in the Ruins of Community"



II. Honesty and Integrity in Business

Honesty
Daniel Defoe, "Of Honesty and Veracity in Dealing"
Sissela Bok, "Truthfulness, Deceit, and Trust"
Albert Z. Carr, "Is Business Bluffing Ethical?"

Sales and Advertising
John G. Jones, "Character and Caliber in Salesmanship"
David M. Holley, "A Moral Evaluation of Sales Practices"
Israel Kirzner, "Advertising"
Robert Arrington, "Advertising and Behavior Control"

Integrity, Loyalty, and Whistleblowing
Gabriele Taylor, "Integrity"
Josiah Royce, "Loyalty"
Ronald Duska, "Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty"
Michael Martin, "Whistleblowing: Professionalism, Personal Life, and Shared Responsibility"



III. Responsibility, Action, and the Conduct of Business

Individual Responsibility
John Lachs, " 'I Only Work Here': Mediation and Irresponsibility"
Michael O. Hardimon, "Role Obligations"

Corporate Responsibility
Milton Friedman, "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits"
R. Edward Freeman, "A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation"
Michael E. Debow, "The Ethics of Rent-Seeking? A New Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility"

Industry, Work, and Ambition
Benjamin Franklin, "The Way to Wealth"
Dorothy Sayers, "Why Work?"
Adam Smith, "Of the Origin of Ambition"

Courage, Entrepreneurship, and Profit
Aristotle, "Courage"
Joseph Schumpeter, "The Entrepreneur"
Scott Arnold, "Why Profits are Deserved"
John Christman, "Entrepreneurs, Profits, and Deserving Market Shares"

Freedom of Contract and Affirmative Action
Patricia H. Werhane and Tara J. Radin, "Employer and Employee Rights in an Institutional Context"
Eric Mack, "In Defense of Unbridled Freedom of Contract"
Gertrude Ezorsky, "Moral Perspectives on Affirmative Action"
Louis Pojman, "The Moral Status of Affirmative Action"



C. THE CONSEQUENCES OF COMMERCE

I. The Moral Effects of Commerce
Montesquieu, "Of Laws in Relation to Commerce"
Hume, "Of Refinement in the Arts"
Karl Marx, section 1, "Manifesto of the Communist Party"
Daniel Bell, "The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism"
Robert Nisbet, excerpts from "The Prevalence of War" and "The Loose Individual"

II. Economic Growth, Progress, and Culture
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, "A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind"
E. J. Mishan, "Whatever Happened to Progress"
Georg Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life"
Jean Baudrillard, "Consumer Society"
Robert Nozick, "A Framework for Utopia"

III. Culture, Commerce, and the Arts
Ernst Fischer, "Art and Capitalism"
Donald Davidson, "A Mirror for Artists"
Dwight MacDonald, "Masscult and Midcult"
Tyler Cowen, "The Arts in a Market Economy"

IV. Business, Technology and Environmental Ethics
Emmanuel G. Mesthene, "Technology and Wisdom"
Jacques Ellul, "What Use? The World of Gadgets"
W. Michael Hoffman, "Business and Environmental Ethics"
Larry E. Ruff, "The Economic Common Sense of Pollution"
Julian L. Simon, "Can the Supply of Natural Resources be Infinite?"