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Defining Documents in American History: Business Ethics

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributor List




Early Efforts—And Failings




From The Prince




“Advice to a Young Tradesman”




Adam Smith, from The Theory of Moral Sentiments




Fletcher v. Peck




Lowell Mill Girls




From “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”




From The Life of P.T. Barnum




Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade




From Utilitarianism




“The Money Power”




Documents Relating to Black Friday, 1869




Verse and Cartoon about Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall




Crédit Mobilier Scandal




Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act




Moving Toward the Modern




Andrew Carnegie: “The Gospel of Wealth”




Eugene Debs: “What Can We Do for Working People?”




Sherman Antitrust Act




“Wall Street Owns the Country”




Frick’s Fracas—Henry Frick Makes His Case




“The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over”




From The Theory of the Leisure Class




Coal Strike Hearings: The Miners Testify




An Immigrant Garment Worker’s “Days and Dreams”




Theodore Roosevelt on Corporate Trusts




“Echoes from the Recent Pennsylvania Coal Strike”




Jane Addams: “Child Labor and Other Dangers of Childhood”




From The Jungle




Fire Hazards in New York City Factories




Clayton Act




On the Teapot Dome Scandal




From My Life and Work, by Henry Ford




Crisis and Renovation




President Hoover Responds to the Stock Market Crash




Stuart Chase: Waste and the Machine Age




Memories of the Flint Sit-Down Strike




From What Makes Sammy Run?




From The Fountainhead




From The Road to Serfdom




From The Hidden Persuaders




Eisenhower’s Farewell Address




Enterprise and Ethics in the Late Twentieth Century




Rachel Carson: Silent Spring




Equal Pay Act




From Unsafe at Any Speed




“The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits”




The “Powell Memo”: Attack on the Free Enterprise System




Bill Gates: Letter to Hobbyists




Foreign Corrupt Practices Act—U.S. Justice Department Overview




From The Culture of Narcissism




“What Is Business Ethics?”




United States v. Kelly—An “Abscam” Case




“Greed Is Good”




Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Report to the President




From Glengarry Glen Ross




Testimony from the 1994 Tobacco Hearings




Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña




Big Business and Big Government Today




Sarbanes-Oxley Act




Halliburton Overcharges Report




Charging Document in the Case of Bernie Madoff




Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act—A Synopsis




Report on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill




Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission




“Countrywide Protected Fraudsters by Silencing Whistleblowers…”




EPA Notice of Violation of Clean Air Act to Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.




Wells Fargo Account Fraud Scandal




Summary of Letter Requesting Further Review of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and Memorandum Opinion re. Vacatur




Equifax Data Breach Announcement




Statement to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee concerning Cambridge Analytica




From Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography