Professional Ethics:
For Further Reading
Here are some interesting and fun-to-read books related to a few of the topics discussed in class. None of these is required or expected for the course, but if you are curious about a topic and would like to casually explore it some more, these are some fun places to start.
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George A. Akerlof and Robert J Shiller, (Princeton University Press, 2016). - how corporations manipulate and deceive their customers for profit.
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It) by Elizabeth Anderson, et al, (Princeton University Press, 2019). - a provocative discussion!
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan, (Free Press, 2004).
Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do About It by Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black, (Dialog Press, 2008). - what a lack of ethics can do!
Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum, (Penguin Press, 2018). - the garbage they put into food before it became illegal to do so is scary!
Bananas: How The United Fruit Company Shaped The World by Peter Chapman, (Canongate U. S., 2009). - a lesson in what excessive corporate political power can do.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond, (New York, NY: Broadway Books, 2017). - fascinating account of broken people in a broken system.
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy by Robert H Frank, (Princeton University Press, 2017).
Industrial-Strength Denial by Barbara Freese, (University of California Press, 2020). - how businesses defended their practices from slavery to tobacco use to climate change - 8 examples in all with lots of interesting parallels among them.
Encountering Religion in the Workplace by Raymond F. Gregory, (Cornell University Press, 2011). - interesting overview of legal issues regarding religion and the workplace.
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. M. Conway, (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2010). - discusses conflicts among corporate interests, public interests, and democracy.
The Poverty Paradox by Mark Robert Rank (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do? by Michael J. Sandel, (New York, NY: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2009). - with excellent examples, includes discussion of utilitarianism, Kant's theory, etc., in the context of economic systems.
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel, (New York, NY: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2012).
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, (Harper, 2005).
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer (New York, NY: Random House, 2010). - well written book on global poverty.
Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics by Peter Singer, (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph Stiglitz, (New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2012).
Living High and Letting Die by Peter Unger, (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996). - about our economic obligations to others.
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