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).
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.
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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