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  1. Prisoner's paradoxes.Jonathan B. King - 1988 - Journal of Business Ethics 7 (7):475 - 487.
    As levels of trust decrease and the necessity for trust increase in our society, we are increasingly driven toward the untoward, even disastrous, outcomes of the prisoner's dilemma. Yet despite the growing evidence that (re)building conditions of trust is increasingly mandatory in our era, modern moral philosophy (by default) and the social sciences (implicitly) legitimize an instrumental rationality which is the root problem. The greatest danger is that as conditions of trust are rationalized away through the progressive institutionalization of an (...)
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  • The transactional ethic: The ethical foundations of free enterprise reconsidered. [REVIEW]Jeffrey A. Barach & John B. Elstrott - 1988 - Journal of Business Ethics 7 (7):545 - 551.
    A review of the evolution of the ethical foundations of free enterprise reveals the essentially utilitarian ethical foundation prevailing today. To enrich those foundations the article attempts to establish the ethical validity of free transactions by relating them to the basic principle of interpersonal ethics: the Golden Rule. The validity of the transactional ethic is presented as an articulation of freedom in a valid social and economic context.
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  • Twin Towers: A philosophy and theology of business. [REVIEW]William J. Byron - 1988 - Journal of Business Ethics 7 (7):525 - 530.
    To be in business is first to be. To do in business, is to enhance one's being and the being of others; it ought never result in the diminishment of either. This article invites philosophical reflection on the purpose of business.To be and do in business looks for an explanation that goes beyond the meaning of work. The meaning of work is a worthy philosophical inquiry; the meaning of business is a separate question. The purpose of business is relational. Business (...)
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