College of Business Administration

Seminar in Business Ethics and Social Institutions

Discussion Questions for September 09, 1999:

1. What is the corporation?

2. Can the corporation appropriately be considered a moral entity?

3. What moral justification can be offered in defense of market economies?

4. What is the invisible hand, anyway? What 'evidence' do we have of its operation?

5. What alternatives do we have to market economies?

6. So...what is the primary function of an economy?

7. What is the concept of 'distributive justice,' and what bearing does it have on our conception of the free market?

8. Upon what view of human nature is the notion of the free market based?

9. What is the relationship between politics and economics? Does one 'type' of economice system presuppose the existence of one 'type' of political system? Why or why not?

10. Where the corporation is concerned, what are the differences between moral responsibility, social responsibility, and legal responsibility?

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