Discussing a variety of issues in business ethics, Machan (emeritus, philosophy, Auburn U.) and Chesher (philosophy, Santa Barbara City College) advance a form of ethics that sees the basis of
freedom as existing only with the right to private property, views and government regulation of business as a form of tyranny, looks at insider trading as a moral responsibility and, in the
context of globalization, doesn’t think child labor is such a bad thing. In discussing employment ethics, advertising, racial issues, insider trading, business environmentalism, bribes, and
globalization, the fundamental assumption seems to be that advancing business interests is the moral right and that the very few things that are unethical should be self-regulated by business.
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