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The landmark political treatise that refuted the so-called divine right of kings and established the principles of representative government   "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."   With these stirring words, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins The Social Contract-the first shot in a battle of ideas that would set the stage for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In the feverish days of the Enlightenment, Rousseau...

"In whose interests should a corporation be run? Over the last thirty years the field of 'stakeholder theory' has proposed a distinctive answer: a corporation should be run in the interests of all its primary stakeholders - including employees, customers, suppliers and financiers - without contradicting the ethical principles on which capitalism stands. This book offers a critique of this central claim. It argues that by applying the political concept...

1. Touchstones. PART I: BUSINESS AS MEDIATING INSTITUTION. 2. Some Catholic Notions. 3. Natural Law and Laws of Nature. 4. Nature and Self-Interest. 5. The Velvet Corporation. PART II: BUSINESS AS MEDIATING INSTITUTION AND OTHER LEADING BUSINESS ETHICS FRAMEWORKS. 6. Stakeholder Theory. 7. Social Contracting. 8. Business as Community. PART III: THEOLOGY AND BUSINESS. 9. Theological Naturalism. 10. The Dark Side of Religion in the Workplace and Some...