Instructor: Nevin Johnson. This course meets TR 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. in PE 3018.

This course will examine a variety of ethical issues related to the conduct of business from the perspectives of the consumer, the corporation, and “the system.” Likely issues to be discussed will include:

whether businesses have duties to do things other than maximize their own profit, consistent with the law
issues related to executive compensation (are there moral limits to how much CEOs should be paid?)
whether consumers have ethical duties when it comes to their consumption behavior
whether there are moral limits to markets (i.e., whether “some things should not be for sale”)
other ethical issues that arise in the context of globalization.

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