The book tracks the rise of Business Ethics as a discipline in the United States through a review of the basic understandings of the role of business practices in the operations of society, beginning with Aristotle and proceeding to a review of the formative concepts and cases in the history of American business.

Provides a clear exposition of the philosophical consideration of the moral status of common business practice, from Aristotle to the present Gives a clear critique of the fundamentals of modern business theory from Adam Smith onwards Provides a useful review of influential court cases that influenced business practice in the United States? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Prefatory Note.- Introduction: The Nature of this text.- Chapter 1. Can Business Be a Moral Enterprise?.- Chapter 2. Employee Rights and Responsibilities The Internal Constituencies of Business.- Chapter 3: Customers, Community, and World: The External Constituencies of Business.