Crossroads of Philosophy and Economics

Pocket Reference of Business Ethics Theories

  
 
 

 
Marketplace Ethics—pure
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Value
 Profit
Responsibility
 Decisions geared entirely to the economic rules of the marketplace.
Key concepts
 Customary practices including obeying the law, and traditional duties including the one to honesty hold no intrinsic weight. Ethics reduces to economics.
Hard question
 What if money doesn't equal happiness?
Examples

The Cali Cartel (Narcotrafficking)

UBS Global Wealth Management and Business Banking (Overseas tax sheltering)
Prime philosophical
theory compatibilities
 Egoism, Rights theory.
   
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