An Absurd Tax on our Fellow Citizens: The Ethics of Rent Seeking in the Market Failures (or Self-Regulation) Approach

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 467-476

  Jaworski, Peter Martin ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beyond compliance obligations; Business Ethics; Market failure; Market failures approach; Regulation; Rent seeking; Self regulation; Stakeholder theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901364126     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1734-y     Document Type: Article

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