“If economics is the dismal science‚ the study of hunting and gathering economies must be its most advanced branch” (Sahlins 1972: 1). Stone Age Economics is one of the well-known books in the subfield of economic anthropology provided by an American cultural anthropologist‚ Marshall Sahlins. This book is a slight representation in the literature dealing with ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ economic life. This book consists of a series of chapters that lacks a proper conclusion of Sahlins discoveries
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somewhat mutually exclusive. Indeed‚ when it comes to health intervention efficiency does matter as it can vary more than a thousandfold (e.g. tuberculosis prevention measures vs. dialysis). When there is such a wide spectrum of efficiency‚ other distributive issues are relegated in the
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BUSINESS ETHICS & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OCS AGENDA • Understanding Ethics • Managing Business Ethics • Corporate Social Responsibility • Complexity of Ethical Issues • Ethical Leadership • Evaluation of Corporate Governance • Internal & External Corporate Governance mechanisms • Corporate Governance Ratings OCS Scams OCS Values • Fundamental beliefs • Principles for good‚ right and just • Evaluate something vis-à-vis a Standard • Integrity‚ Patriotism‚ Fairness OCS Morals • Values attributing
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poverty is a moral issue‚ implying that citizens do not have a duty of distributive justice towards those suffering from poverty. However‚ Rawls considers that citizens from richer countries have a duty of assistance towards poorer countries. Rawls believes that if a country is poor‚ it is solely caused by domestic factors‚ named under PDPT‚ purely domestic causation of poverty theory. In sum‚ Rawls do not want to expand distributive justice worldwide (Rawls‚ 1993). On the other hand‚ Thomas Pogge
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Business Ethics Concepts and Cases Ethics means the behavior and actions of an individual or organization leading to the common good of the society and company. The best way to begin the discussion of business ethics is by looking at how real companies have incorporated ethics into their operation. Merck and Company a well-known name in the pharmaceutical industry resolved the issue of disease called river blindness. River blindness was a disease prominent on the river coast in the third world countries
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majority are just getting by. Morality questions the unequal distribution of wealth by judging behaviour and people in terms of whether they meet the moral standard. In this essay‚ I will look at the egalitarian and utilitarian perspectives on distributive justice (focusing mainly on income distribution) to show that inequality in contemporary South Africa is immoral. Inequality in South Africa Firstly‚ a distinction needs to be made. People should be equal but this does not mean they should
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Based upon the above meaning of economic profit- Stern Stewart & Co. recognised that management’s goal should be to maximise the market value of company but also that this could not be done in isolation from the capital invested in the company. Thus‚ management should aim to maximise the difference between the market value and the invested capital (debt + equity); this is known as market value added or MVA. However‚ higher MVA is the result of management action and not a tool in itself. SIMILAR TO
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Labor has been a vital role in the mean of production for the industrial world. In the modern economy‚ labor is seen as the major role of the productivity process of a firm. Hence‚ firms need to adjust their operation in relation to the labor power and employment structure in their respective countries. Japan and the United States are two of the powerhouses in the global market in the automobile industry. Firms in both countries share similar goals on maximizing its productivity and efficiency. Nonetheless
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alternative explanations. We explore whether and the extent to which the pricing strategies employed in the distributive trade in Jamaica are consistent with the four explanations which have been most prominently researched. To accomplish this‚ we rely on mainly the opinion of businesses operating at various segments (i.e. importation‚ production‚ distribution‚ wholesale and retail) of the distributive trade. We also utilised price data collected at the wholesale and retail segments of the trade. Based
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Behaviour PRBM022 Casuarina NT 0909 Lecturers Name: Phone: (08) 8946 6830 Dr. Susan Bandias Assessment Title Organisational justice is an important workplace Semester: concept. Discuss how organizational justice aspects such as distributive‚ procedural and interactional justice can impact on job 2 satisfaction of employees and their organizational citizenship behaviour. Assignment 1 Year: 2014 (select assignment number) Due Date (dd/mm/yyyy): Lodgement Date (dd/mm/yyyy):
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