Corporations and the Common Good - Hardcover

Dickie, Robert; Rouner, Leroy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268007543 ISBN 13: 9780268007546

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002

Synopsis

Multinational corporations are highly regarded by some as the crowning achievement of American enterprise. For a significant and increasingly vocal group of Americans, however, the large corporation inspires suspicion if not outright hostility. While some share these suspicions, the contributors to this volume are persuaded that the large corporation is not only here to stay, as Kenneth Mason argues, but has become the definitive institution of modern Western culture. The large corporation dominates the modern world in much the same way that the church and the university dominated the medieval world. Corporations and the Common Good clarifies the suspicions about how corporations came to be, what makes them work, and what needs to be done to change them and their impact on our society. These were the questions which motivated a colloquium at Boston University on what we chose to call "The Philosophy of the Large Corporation." That enigmatic title was their way of avoiding another conference on "business ethics" and inaugurating a too-brief, admittedly rough-edged, but nevertheless serious attempt to find out how large corporations affect the common good in our culture. The colloquium was sponsored jointly by Boston University's Institute for Philosophy and Religion and its School of Management.

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Review:

"In this volume, Grant, a Christian Platonist and Canadian political philosopher, gathers together several of his essays on related themes. Some are quite theoretical; others focus on particular moral problems (abortion and euthanasia)."--Religious Studies Review "Religious Studies Review "

About the Author:

Robert B. Dickie, a member of the State Bars of California, Massachusetts and New York, practiced law at Shearman & Sterling, has served as a tenured professor at Boston University's School of Management and as a faculty member at Stanford Law School's Directors' College. A graduate of Yale University, he earned a J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He authored Financial Statement Analysis and Business Valuation for the Practical Lawyer, published by the ABA and its best seller in 1999 (2nd edition 2006). Leroy S. Rouner (d. 2006) was the Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Philosophical Theology and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University. He edited a number of books and is the author of Within Human Experience: The Philosophy of William Ernest Hocking and To Be at Home: Christianity, Civil Religion and World Community.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0268007543
• ISBN 13: 9780268007546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160