Social contract approaches to business ethics: Bridging the "is-ought" gap

A Companion to Business Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 38-55

  Dunfee, Thomas W ^a   Donaldson, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Economic systems; Social contract; Social institutions; Social welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949250444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998397.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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