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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