Journal of Business Ethics (2009) 91:65–82 DOI 10.1007/s10551-009-0068-2 Ó Springer 2009 Analyzing Insider Trading from the Perspectives of Utilitarian Ethics and Rights Theory Robert W. McGee ABSTRACT. The common view is that insider trading is always unethical and illegal. But such is not the case. Some forms of insider trading are legal. Furthermore‚ applying ethical principles to insider trading causes one to conclude that it is also sometimes ethical. This paper attempts to get past
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Brecht’s Life of Galileo: socio-political considerations Together with Mother Courage‚ the Good Man of Sezuan and the Caucasian Circle‚ Brecht’s Life of Galileo is considered one of his most important dramatic works. For those not familiar with it‚ I would like to begin with a brief summary of the play in its best known and last version of 1955. The opening scenes show a middle-aged Galileo in Padua in the Republic of Venice‚ where his teaching obligations earn him a meager income and largely
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Explaining Concepts Concepts of Dating According to the article Dating‚ by Beth L. Bailey. We know dating is a new style of courtship‚ which was started in the early twentieth. With the emergence of this new style of courtship‚ the old one was replaced. What I remembered as an example of good explanatory writing is the writer using time order to tell the history of old courtship and when the new system of dating was emerging. And the readers probably are young people they don’t know how the
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Diversity Considerations to Improve the Strategic HRM Planning Process. Prepared for Jane Doe HR Director ABC Restaurant & Pub Prepared by _______ Personnel Director ABC Restaurant & Pub December 24‚ 2012 ABC’s Restaurant & Pub Ethical and Diversity Considerations to Improve the Strategic HRM Planning Process. I have gathered information over the last five weeks about department policies and best practices pertaining to ethical and diversity considerations. Based
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Monopolistically competitive market In Principles of Economics (third edition)‚ N. Gregory Mankiw describes the market as the combination of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service (64). Economists have defined three key elements for any industry to be classified in the market: the number of firms‚ the similarity of the products and the ease of entering a certain industry. By using these features‚ four market structures can be classified—perfect competition‚ monopolistic competition‚
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Explain Natural Law theory In this essay‚ I will discuss the theories behind Natural Law‚ as well as the qualities it is seen to possess. I will explain Aquinas’ concepts and theory on Natural Law‚ discussing eudaimonia and the doctrine of the double effect. Finally‚ I will reflect on some of the positive and negative aspects‚ in summarising Natural Law theory. It is important to highlight that Natural Laws differ from acts which occur naturally. There are many aspects to Natural Law‚ the first
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1. Is the New York Times paywall working? According to Chairman Sulzberger the goal of the paywall was to “build the Times’s digital subscription base and develop a new robust consumer revenue stream‚ while maintaining its significant digital advertising business.” Secondary to the constraint of maintaining the ad business was the requirement to maintain social buzz and branding. To begin‚ the NYT wanted to increase future revenues for the paper and offset the inevitable decline of its print
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CHAPTER 22 MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS‚ TRANSFER PRICING‚ AND MULTINATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Describe a management control system and its three key properties 2. Describe the benefits and costs of decentralization 3. Explain transfer prices and four criteria used to evaluate them 4. Calculate transfer prices using three different methods 5. Illustrate how market-based transfer prices promote goal congruence in perfectly competitive markets 6. Avoid making
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SUBJECT: Operations in AFG ISSUE. The State of multinational operations in Afghanistan after 2014. Discussion. After 2014‚ will NATO continue in AFG or is it more likely to shift to a ‘Coalition of the willing’ and why? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization‚ or NATO‚ will have a continued presence in Afghanistan after 2014. Their presence will continue to cultivate the development of democratization and human rights‚ allay the fears of the Afghanistan people‚ and send a message to armed oppositions
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A. Explain Kant’s Categorical Imperative The Categorical Imperative was a deontological‚ absolute‚ normative and secular theory put forward by Immanuel Kant in the 18th century. Kant’s theory was deontological which means that it judges morality based on a person’s action rather than the outcome‚ it is also secular‚ this means that ‚ even though Kant is religious‚ his theory is not‚ his theory is judgemental which means the theory is normative and it is also absolute which means that Kant believes
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