Socrates Comes to Wall Street: Budget edition.

by Thomas White

Overview

A variety of disturbing events - not least of which is the ongoing concentration of the nation's wealth in the hands of a very small percentage of the population - have given us reason to question a number of basic assumptions about business, corporations, and the workings of contemporary free-market capitalism in a global economy. Written as a fictional dialogue between a bank CEO and a unique venture capitalist whose friends have nicknamed "Socrates," Socrates Comes to Wall Street challenges readers to think critically about ideas and practices that are taken as "givens" in most American corporations and business schools. Honoring the spirit of the historical Socrates' claim the "the unexamined life is not worth living," this book suggests that relentless scrutiny by a contemporary Socrates shows that a number of these assumptions are likely false-the product of ideology, not facts. Employing this original and provocative approach, business ethicist Thomas White seeks to encourage current and future business leaders to be more astute about recognizing the ethical implications of their actions, and to act more prudently and more fairly than we have seen in the recent past. (This is a budget-priced, electronic version of the original 2016 edition.)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185916131
Publisher:	Thomas I. White
Publication date:	08/30/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	83,271
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Thomas I. White, Ph.D. is the Conrad N. Hilton Professor Emeritus in Business Ethics at Loyola Marymount University and Founder of IBECC: The International Business Ethics Case Competition. He has published in areas that include: 16th century Renaissance humanism, utopian theory, business ethics, and environmental ethics. His main area of research over the last thirty years has been the philosophical and ethical implications of the scientific research on whales and dolphins. He argues that dolphins should be considered "nonhuman persons" and that the use of captive cetaceans by the entertainment industry constitutes "cruelty." He is a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.