Living With the Dragon: Acting Ethically in a World of Unintended Consequences
Author:   Daryl Koehn (University of St. Thomas, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415874977


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   16 December 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Living With the Dragon: Acting Ethically in a World of Unintended Consequences


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Author:   Daryl Koehn (University of St. Thomas, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.181kg
ISBN:  

9780415874977


ISBN 10:   0415874971
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   16 December 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Typology of Unintended Consequences 2. Causes Worldly Causes. Practical Causes. Psychological Causes 3. Challenges Unintended Consequences Pose to Standard Moral Theories Utilitarianism. Deontology. Care Ethics. Virtue Ethics 4. Possible Ethical Remedies Worldly Remedies. Practical Remedies. Psychological Remedies

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"""! Replete with examples, this book would be a good supplementary text in business or environmental ethics or a business and society course"" -- T.R. Gillespie, Northwest University, CHOICE (July 2010)"


... Replete with examples, this book would be a good supplementary text in business or environmental ethics or a business and society course - T.R. Gillespie, Northwest University, CHOICE (July 2010)


! Replete with examples, this book would be a good supplementary text in business or environmental ethics or a business and society course -- T.R. Gillespie, Northwest University, CHOICE (July 2010)


Author Information

Daryl Koehn Ms. Daryl Koehn is the Cullen Chair of Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. She has a Ph.D. in ethics from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University and an MBA in finance from Northwestern University. Her writings have been translated into many foreign languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian Bahasi.

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