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 explore it some more, these are some fun places to start.


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)

Living High and Letting Die by Peter Unger, (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996) - about our economic obligations to others

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

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!

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, (Harper, 2005)

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan, (Free Press, 2004).




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