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From Publishers Weekly
Freelance author Scammell has written a panegyric to the False Claims Act, a Civil War-vintage statute authorizing private lawsuits (called qui tam actions) to recover money swindled from the federal government. As revised and strengthened in 1986, the False Claims Act permits a whistle-blower [...]
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“Ethics in the Workplace: Tools and Tactics for Organizational Transformation is for any middle-management business executive who seeks an interdisciplinary text considering ethical change agents and their work - and for any college level course on the subject. It uses ethical research results from social science, [...]
From Kirkus Reviews
Freeman (Business/Univ. of Virginia), Pierce (Medicine/Univ. of Nebraska), and business consultant Dodd argue that US business must not content itself with meeting environmental standards mandated by the state: it must instead assume a leadership role in the struggle for conservation.Progressive environmental practices are more [...]
Rapid advances in computing and information science often outpace society’s ability to adapt its moral and legal codes. Different computing paradigms applied to the same ethical issues can often lead to conflicting confusions. This second edition examines ethical, social, and policy challenges stemming from the emergence of cyberspace, [...]
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“…a grand tour of science…” — Reports of the Nat’l Center for Science Education
“If questions surrounding human experimentation, fetal cell research, and animal rights interest you, this book merits your serious attention.” — Bookviews, September, 2000
Is science amoral? Are scientists ethical? [...]
This latest volume in the acclaimed Ruffin Series in Business Ethics brings together the contributions to the annual Ruffin Lecture series, in which some of the leading scholars in business ethics addressed the question: Can business, and business education, be considered one of the humanities, or is it in a class by [...]
This is the David-and-Goliath story of how an American bureaucrat took on the tobacco industry–and helped topple it. David Kessler, head of the Food and Drug Administration for seven years under Presidents Bush and Clinton, earned the nickname “Eliot Knessler” from The Washington Post–a pun meant to evoke the memory of the [...]
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‘… the mature result of a lifelong project.’ History of Economic Ideas
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‘… the mature result of a lifelong project.’ History of Economic Ideas
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order Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective [...]
Ethical misconduct can shipwreck your company. Avoid scandal with MANAGING RISKS FOR CORPORATE INTEGRITY: HOW TO SURVIVE AN ETHICAL MISCONDUCT DISASTER. Inside, you’ll discover powerful insight into dealing with, and preventing, ethical disasters. You’ll not only learn how to identify, illustrate, and define ethical misconduct; you’ll get the expert’s guide to preventing, [...]
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“[H]ighly recommended for any professional school library, especially those in law.”–Choice
“…Ethics and Excuses is a thought provoking and stimulating look into a basic, yet overlooked, reality of our day-to-day lives.”–Personnel Psychology
Rarely discussed in courses on ethics is the topic of excuses, but in McDowell’s [...]
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