Baseball and Business Ethics

The piece linked below draws upon a recent controversy in the world of baseball to illustrate something important about the world of business. >>>

LINK: Capitalism, like baseball, has both written and unwritten rules (by Chris MacDonald for Canadian Business)

…in both business and in baseball, the rules—both written and unwritten—serve to protect a range of stakeholders. Some rules protect participants. Others protect innocent bystanders. In some cases, the written rules are controversial or unclear. And in others, the unwritten rules are uncertain. And so sometimes the former get changed or clarified, and the latter evolve. But we can’t begin to understand the point and the proper scope of particular rules — rules against aggressive slides, rules against insider trading, etc. — and the way those rules differ from the rules of everyday life, without understanding that they are rules whose logic is internal to the game, a way to civilize a justifiably aggressive activity.

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