Consumer ethics in a global economy : how buying here causes injustice there / Daniel K. Finn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finn, Daniel K., 1947- author.

Series:

Moral traditions series.

Moral traditions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Consumer behavior--Moral and ethical aspects.

Consumer behavior.

Commerce--Moral and ethical aspects.

Commerce.

Social ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Georgetown University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Workers in distant nations who produce the products we buy frequently suffer from accidents, managerial malfeasance, and injustice. Are consumers who bought the products made by these workers in any way morally responsible for those injustices? And what about the far more frequent, less severe injustices, such as the withholding of wages, the denial of bathroom breaks, forced overtime, and harassment of various sorts? Could buying a shirt at the local department store create for you some responsibility for the horrendous death in a factory fire of the women who sewed it half a planet away?

Contents:

Our situation

Understanding our individualistic cultural bias

Why economics sees markets individualistically

Are consumers responsible for injustices a world away?

Critical realism

Critical realism and natural science

Social structures

Power

The market as a social structure

Implications

Sinful social structures

Economic ethics in a stratified world

What can be done about market injustice?

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781626166974

1626166978