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It's legal but it ain't right : harmful social consequences of legal industries / Nikos Passas and Neva Goodwin, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Evolving values for a capitalist world.
- Evolving values for a capitalist world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business ethics.
- Business ethics--United States.
- Corporations--Corrupt practices--Case studies.
- Corporations.
- Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States--Case studies.
- Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Capitalism.
- Globalization--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Globalization.
- Lobbying--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Lobbying.
- Business and politics.
- Political corruption.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Many U.S. corporations and the goods they produce negatively impact our society without breaking any laws. We are all too familiar with the tobacco industry's effect on public health and health care costs for smokers and nonsmokers, as well as the role of profit in the pharmaceutical industry's research priorities. It's Legal but It Ain't Right tackles these issues, plus the ethical ambiguities of legalized gambling, the firearms trade, the fast food industry, the pesticide industry, private security companies, and more. Aiming to identify industries and goods that undermine our societal values and to hold them accountable for their actions, this collection makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of ethics in our time. This accessible exploration of corporate legitimacy and crime will be important reading for advocates, journalists, students, and anyone interested in the dichotomy between law and legitimacy. Nikos Passas is Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Neva Goodwin is Co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. Introduction: A Crime by Any Other Name / Nikos Passas and Neva Goodwin; 2. The Cigarette Industry / Richard A. Daynard; 3. Externalities of the Arms Trade / Loretta Bondi; 4. Firearms: Another Peculiar American Institution / Tom Diaz; 5. Leashing the "Dogs of War" / Herbert Howe; 6. The Costs of Legalized Gambling: An Economic Approach / John Warren Kindt; 7. The Licit and Illicit Trade in Antiquities / Patty Gerstenblith; 8. The High Price of Cheap Food / Mark Ritchie; 9. Accountability in the Pesticide Industry / Peter Riggs and Megan Waples
- 10. Titans of the Enron Economy: The Ten Habits of Highly Defective Corporations / Scott Klinger and Holly Sklar11. Profiting through Influence: The Pharmaceuticals and Lobbying Industries / Ken Silverstein and Jess Taylor; List of Contributors
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786612650598
- 9781282650596
- 1282650599
- 9780472026197
- 0472026194
- OCLC:
- 743201194
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