Author: Lia CooperPublisher: The Spec Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
The Honorable Beta
Author: Lia CooperPublisher: The Spec Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
The Beta Book
Author: Francis Wayland ShepardsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fraternal organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Honorable Business
Author: James R. OttesonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190914238
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Business has a bad name for many people. It is easy to point to unethical and damaging behavior by companies. And it may seem straightforward to blame either indivuduals or, more generally, ruthless markets and amoral commercial society. In Honorable Business, James R. Otteson argues that business activity can be valuable in itself. The primary purpose of honorable businesses is to create value-for all parties. They look for mutually voluntary and mutually beneficial transactions, so that all sides of any exchange benefit, leading to increasing prosperity not just for one person or for one group at the expense of others but simultaneously for everyone involved. Done correctly, honorable business is a positive-sum activity that can enable flourishing for individuals and prosperity for society. Otteson connects honorable business with the political, economic, and cultural institutions that contribute to a just and humane society. He builds on Aristotle's conception of human beings as purposive creatures who are capable of constructing a plan for their lives that gives them a chance of achieving the highest good for humanity, focusing on autonomy and accountability, as well as good moral judgment. This good judgment can enable us to answer the why of what we do, not just the how. He also draws on Adam Smith's moral philosophy and political economy, and argues that Smithian institutions have played a significant role in the remarkable increase in worldwide prosperity we have seen over the last two hundred years. Otteson offers a pragmatic Code of Business Ethics, linked to a specific conception of professionalism, and defends this Code on the basis of a moral mandate to use one's limited resources of time, talent, and treasure to provide value for oneself only by simultaneously providing value to others. The result is well-articulated parameters within which business can be an acceptable-perhaps even praiseworthy-activity.
Nu Sigma Nu Bulletin
Author: Nu Sigma NuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Pomona College Quarterly Magazine
Author: Bēta Thēta Pī
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek letter societies
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Posthumous Papers Bequeathed to the Hon., the East India Company, and Printed by Order of the Government of Bengal
Author: William GriffithPhi Alpha Gamma Quarterly
Author: Phi Alpha GammaThe Hexagon of Alpha Chi Sigma
Author: As We Have Always Done
Author: Leanne Betasamosake SimpsonPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452956014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Winner: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book 2017 Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Instead, she calls for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state, including heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation.