Morality, Competition, and the Firm The Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics

Joseph Heath is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy as well as the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous scholarly works, including Communicative Action and Rational Choice (2001) and Following the Rules (2008). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, as well as the Trudeau Foundation.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1: The Corporation and Society
1. A Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics
2. Stakeholder Theory, Corporate Governance and Public Management (with Wayne Norman)
3. Business Ethics Without Stakeholders
4. An Adversarial Ethic for Business: or, When Sun-Tzu met the Stakeholder
5. Business Ethics and the 'End of History' in Corporate Law

Part 2: Cooperation and the Market
6. Contractualism: Micro and Macro
7. Efficiency as the Implicit Morality of the Market
8. The History of the Invisible Hand
9. The Benefits of Cooperation

Part 3: Extending the Framework
10. The Uses and Abuses of Agency Theory
11. Business Ethics and Moral Motivation: a Criminological Perspective
12. Business Ethics After Virtue
13. Reasonable Restrictions on Underwriting

Bibliography
Index