An appropriate ethical model for business and a critique of Milton Friedman's thesis

Independent Review

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 187-209

  Wilcke, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

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BUSINESS; ETHICS;

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