Business & Technology Ethics

Selected Course Materials

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• Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations (excerpts)
  
  
• Albert Carr. Is Business Bluffing Ethical? (excerpts)

• Milton Friedman. "The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits." The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970 (link to website at http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/dunnweb/rprnts.friedman.html )

Readings on Free Speech:

• American Library Association. "Questions & Answers on Librarian Speech in the Workplace: An explanatory statement of the ALA Code of Ethics adopted July 2001"
  (link to website at http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/libspeechq&a.html )

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