Responsibility to Respect: Why the Core Company Should Act When Affiliates Infringe Human Rights

Business Ethics Should Study Illicit Businesses: To Advance Respect for Human Rights

Business ethics should include illicit businesses as targets of investigation. For, though such businesses violate human rights they have been largely ignored by business ethicists. It is time to surmount this indifference in view of recent international efforts to define illicit businesses for regulatory purposes. Standing in the way, however, is a meta-ethical question as to whether any busin...

When Should We Use Intellectual Property Rights?

The economic analysis of property rights proceeds in two steps. The Ž rst distinguishes rival from nonrival goods. The second contrasts the welfare effects of property rights for these two types of goods. For rival goods, strong property rights lead to efŽ cient outcomes. For nonrival goods, property rights involve the trade-off formalized by William Nordhaus (1969): Weak property rights lead t...

Religious circumcision and the Human Rights Act.

Humiliation, Human Rights, and Global Corporate Responsibility

This article starts out from the suggestion that global social policy would benefit from more corporate awareness of the necessity of their responsible involvement. The typical response to such a proposition is that the corporate sector is not interested in charity, but in earning money. This paper suggests that the corporate sector has, in fact, an interest in incorporating more social respons...

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