Monthly Archives: February 2016
60% Off!!! Retailer Deception, Consumer Irrationality, or Both?
This piece on retailers’ price discounting practices could be a good classroom conversation starter on ethics in sales, deception in bargaining and negotiation, and the like. Three quick observations: (1) There is a distinction to be made between an action
60% Off!!! Retailer Deception, Consumer Irrationality, or Both?
This piece on retailers’ price discounting practices could be a good classroom conversation starter on ethics in sales, deception in bargaining and negotiation, and the like. Three quick observations: (1) There is a distinction to be made between an action
Is Watching the Super Bowl Unethical?
If an activity is unethical, is it unethical to enjoy watching it? The blog posting below takes recent criticism of pro football and (on the day after Super Bowl Sunday!) turns it on fans. The author compares enjoying watching football
Is Watching the Super Bowl Unethical?
If an activity is unethical, is it unethical to enjoy watching it? The blog posting below takes recent criticism of pro football and (on the day after Super Bowl Sunday!) turns it on fans. The author compares enjoying watching football
Law Forbids Secret Videos of Factory Farms
The editorial linked below criticizes a new law passed in North Carolina that forbids “undercover recordings” of abuse at farms and slaughterhouses. (The law technically applies to other workplaces, too, but in practice the law is clearly aimed at protecting
Law Forbids Secret Videos of Factory Farms
The editorial linked below criticizes a new law passed in North Carolina that forbids “undercover recordings” of abuse at farms and slaughterhouses. (The law technically applies to other workplaces, too, but in practice the law is clearly aimed at protecting
Op-Ed: Raising Minimum Wage = Pricing Marginal Workers Out of Walmart Jobs
This Wall Street Journal op-ed by CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder is a useful illustration of economic concepts and their real-life application in labor markets and business decision-making, using Walmart’s wages and recent store closures as its example. Explicitly, Puzder
Op-Ed: Raising Minimum Wage = Pricing Marginal Workers Out of Walmart Jobs
This Wall Street Journal op-ed by CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder is a useful illustration of economic concepts and their real-life application in labor markets and business decision-making, using Walmart’s wages and recent store closures as its example. Explicitly, Puzder
What Do We Do About Inequality?
Here’s a new book that’s just been published by the Journal Review Foundation (which also publishes Business Ethics Highlights). The book, edited by Chris Oestereich, is called What Do We Do About Inequality?. It’s available now in Kindle format via
What Do We Do About Inequality?
Here’s a new book that’s just been published by the Journal Review Foundation (which also publishes Business Ethics Highlights). The book, edited by Chris Oestereich, is called What Do We Do About Inequality?. It’s available now in Kindle format via
Is a Canadian College Supporting Gender Apartheid in Saudi Arabia?
What are the limits to cultural sensitivity? Do those limits include active or passive complicity in human rights violations? Are there some countries where an ethical organization just cannot do business? When we disagree with local standards, do we do
Is a Canadian College Supporting Gender Apartheid in Saudi Arabia?
What are the limits to cultural sensitivity? Do those limits include active or passive complicity in human rights violations? Are there some countries where an ethical organization just cannot do business? When we disagree with local standards, do we do
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