25 books in Business & Economics - Business Ethics
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Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $18.00
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $18.00
A society top-heavy with billionaires may seem like a paradise of upward mobility, but it actually more closely resembles a boneyard of broken dreams for all but a lucky few. Between 1980 and 2008, the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans grew by a meager 1 percent compared to...
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Ethical Chic
The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
Written by Fran Hawthorne
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $16.00
“Hawthorne gives readers an impartial picture of the difficulties of running a profitable company while trying to maintain a positive corporate belief system…Highly recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review
Consumers are told that when they put on an American Apparel t-shirt, leggings, jeans, gold bra, or other item, they look hot. Not only do... Read more >
The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
Written by Fran Hawthorne
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $16.00
“Hawthorne gives readers an impartial picture of the difficulties of running a profitable company while trying to maintain a positive corporate belief system…Highly recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review
Consumers are told that when they put on an American Apparel t-shirt, leggings, jeans, gold bra, or other item, they look hot. Not only do... Read more >
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How Walmart Is Destroying America (And the World)
And What You Can Do about It
Written by Bill Quinn
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 12, 2012
Price: $7.99
After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3, 500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world'¬?s largest private employer. In this third edition of How Wal-Mart Is Destroying... Read more >
And What You Can Do about It
Written by Bill Quinn
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 12, 2012
Price: $7.99
After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3, 500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world'¬?s largest private employer. In this third edition of How Wal-Mart Is Destroying... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Ethical Chic
The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
Written by Fran Hawthorne
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $25.95
“Hawthorne gives readers an impartial picture of the difficulties of running a profitable company while trying to maintain a positive corporate belief system…Highly recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review
Consumers are told that when they put on an American Apparel t-shirt, leggings, jeans, gold bra, or other item, they look hot. Not only do... Read more >
The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
Written by Fran Hawthorne
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $25.95
“Hawthorne gives readers an impartial picture of the difficulties of running a profitable company while trying to maintain a positive corporate belief system…Highly recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review
Consumers are told that when they put on an American Apparel t-shirt, leggings, jeans, gold bra, or other item, they look hot. Not only do... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Ethical Chic
The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
Written by Fran Hawthorne
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $25.95
In this age of social activism, pinpoint marketing, and immediate information, consumers demand everything from the coffee, computer, or toothpaste they buy: an affordable, reliable product manufactured by a company that doesn't pollute, saves energy, treats its workers well, and doesn't hurt animals—oh, and that makes them feel cool when they... Read more >
The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
Written by Fran Hawthorne
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $25.95
In this age of social activism, pinpoint marketing, and immediate information, consumers demand everything from the coffee, computer, or toothpaste they buy: an affordable, reliable product manufactured by a company that doesn't pollute, saves energy, treats its workers well, and doesn't hurt animals—oh, and that makes them feel cool when they... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $26.95
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and... Read more >
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $26.95
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $26.95
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and... Read more >
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $26.95
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Stung
The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony
Written by Gary Stephen Ross
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 21, 2011
Price: $12.99
He was one of the brightest stars at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, a brilliant young banker on his way to the top. But Brian Molony had a secret obsession: he loved to gamble. The unsuspecting bank was soon fuelling that obsession, as Molony helped himself to hundreds of thousands... Read more >
The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony
Written by Gary Stephen Ross
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 21, 2011
Price: $12.99
He was one of the brightest stars at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, a brilliant young banker on his way to the top. But Brian Molony had a secret obsession: he loved to gamble. The unsuspecting bank was soon fuelling that obsession, as Molony helped himself to hundreds of thousands... Read more >
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The American Way of Death Revisited
Written by Jessica Mitford
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $11.99
"Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get. It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health."--The New York Review of Books
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a... Read more >
Written by Jessica Mitford
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $11.99
"Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get. It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health."--The New York Review of Books
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Story of Success
Five Steps to Mastering Eithics in Business
Written by Leigh Hafrey
Format: eBook, 270 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $16.99
An innovative business book positioning ethical practice as the cornerstone of success
“Business ethics? Isn’t that an oxymoron?” As a lecturer in ethics, communication, and leadership at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a moderator of the Aspen Executive Seminar, Leigh Hafrey has heard time and again that ethics and business don’t... Read more >
Five Steps to Mastering Eithics in Business
Written by Leigh Hafrey
Format: eBook, 270 pages
On Sale: December 7, 2010
Price: $16.99
An innovative business book positioning ethical practice as the cornerstone of success
“Business ethics? Isn’t that an oxymoron?” As a lecturer in ethics, communication, and leadership at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a moderator of the Aspen Executive Seminar, Leigh Hafrey has heard time and again that ethics and business don’t... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The 5 Big Lies About American Business
Combating Smears Against the Free-Market Economy
Written by Michael Medved
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
WHY FEEL EMBARRASSED BY BUSINESS?
Every American benefits every day from the phenomenal productivity of the free market, so why do so many people feel guilty or skeptical about our business system? In this passionately argued, eye-opening book, talk-radio star and bestselling author Michael Medved provides detailed and devastating rebuttals to the... Read more >
Combating Smears Against the Free-Market Economy
Written by Michael Medved
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $15.00
WHY FEEL EMBARRASSED BY BUSINESS?
Every American benefits every day from the phenomenal productivity of the free market, so why do so many people feel guilty or skeptical about our business system? In this passionately argued, eye-opening book, talk-radio star and bestselling author Michael Medved provides detailed and devastating rebuttals to the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Team Rodent
How Disney Devours the World
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $8.99
"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving... Read more >
How Disney Devours the World
Written by Carl Hiaasen
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2010
Price: $8.99
"Disney is so good at being good that it manifests an evil; so uniformly efficient and courteous, so dependably clean and conscientious, so unfailingly entertaining that it's unreal, and therefore is an agent of pure wickedness. . . . Disney isn't in the business of exploiting Nature so much as striving... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Crude World
The Violent Twilight of Oil
Written by Peter Maass
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $15.95
The Violent Twilight of Oil
Written by Peter Maass
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $15.95
The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought new attention to the huge costs of our oil dependence. In this stunning and revealing book, Peter Maass examines the social, political, and environmental impact of petroleum on the countries that produce it.
Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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The Story of Success
Five Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business
Written by Leigh Hafrey
Format: Trade Paperback, 270 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $21.00
An innovative business book positioning ethical practice as the cornerstone of success
“Business ethics? Isn’t that an oxymoron?” As a lecturer in ethics, communication, and leadership at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a moderator of the Aspen Executive Seminar, Leigh Hafrey has heard time and again that ethics and business don’t... Read more >
Five Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business
Written by Leigh Hafrey
Format: Trade Paperback, 270 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $21.00
An innovative business book positioning ethical practice as the cornerstone of success
“Business ethics? Isn’t that an oxymoron?” As a lecturer in ethics, communication, and leadership at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a moderator of the Aspen Executive Seminar, Leigh Hafrey has heard time and again that ethics and business don’t... Read more >
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Stakeholder Theory
Essential Readings in Ethical Leadership and Management
Edited by Abe J. Zakhem
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $31.99
Stakeholder theory is presently the dominant framework for analyzing ethical issues within the field of business ethics. The theory goes beyond the conventional idea that stockholders are the main group to whom corporate managers owe responsibility by arguing that all groups having a stake in a firm—suppliers, customers, employees, the local... Read more >
Essential Readings in Ethical Leadership and Management
Edited by Abe J. Zakhem
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $31.99
Stakeholder theory is presently the dominant framework for analyzing ethical issues within the field of business ethics. The theory goes beyond the conventional idea that stockholders are the main group to whom corporate managers owe responsibility by arguing that all groups having a stake in a firm—suppliers, customers, employees, the local... Read more >
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The Disposable American
Written by Louis Uchitelle
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $16.99
Layoffs have become a fact of life in today’s economy; initiated in the mid 1970s, they are now widely expected, and even accepted. It doesn’t have to be that way.In The Disposable American, award-winning reporter Louis Uchitelle offers an eye-opening account of layoffs in America–how they started, their questionable necessity, and... Read more >
Written by Louis Uchitelle
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $16.99
Layoffs have become a fact of life in today’s economy; initiated in the mid 1970s, they are now widely expected, and even accepted. It doesn’t have to be that way.In The Disposable American, award-winning reporter Louis Uchitelle offers an eye-opening account of layoffs in America–how they started, their questionable necessity, and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Disposable American
Layoffs and Their Consequences
Written by Louis Uchitelle
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $17.00
Layoffs have become a fact of life in today’s economy; initiated in the mid 1970s, they are now widely expected, and even accepted. It doesn’t have to be that way.In The Disposable American, award-winning reporter Louis Uchitelle offers an eye-opening account of layoffs in America–how they started, their questionable necessity, and... Read more >
Layoffs and Their Consequences
Written by Louis Uchitelle
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $17.00
Layoffs have become a fact of life in today’s economy; initiated in the mid 1970s, they are now widely expected, and even accepted. It doesn’t have to be that way.In The Disposable American, award-winning reporter Louis Uchitelle offers an eye-opening account of layoffs in America–how they started, their questionable necessity, and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Book of Hard Choices
How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect
Written by James A. Autry and Peter Roy
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2006
Price: $13.99
“There are a thousand acts of duplicity and dishonesty every day, some large and some small, some of which undoubtedly take place in your workplace. The question for all of us is, ‘Are we going to resist or just play along the path of least resistance?’ The first hard choice a... Read more >
How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect
Written by James A. Autry and Peter Roy
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2006
Price: $13.99
“There are a thousand acts of duplicity and dishonesty every day, some large and some small, some of which undoubtedly take place in your workplace. The question for all of us is, ‘Are we going to resist or just play along the path of least resistance?’ The first hard choice a... Read more >
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Corporate Crooks
How Rogue Executives Ripped Off Americans... and Congress Helped Them Do It!
Written by Greg Farrell
Format: Hardcover, 225 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Price: $26.99
How did the most trusted financial system in the world become the breeding ground for the massive corruption uncovered in the Enron and Worldcom scandals? The simple answer is greed. Greed so blinded CEO’s, auditors, and even members of Congress that they allowed a gang of rogue executives to rig the... Read more >
How Rogue Executives Ripped Off Americans... and Congress Helped Them Do It!
Written by Greg Farrell
Format: Hardcover, 225 pages
On Sale: September 5, 2006
Price: $26.99
How did the most trusted financial system in the world become the breeding ground for the massive corruption uncovered in the Enron and Worldcom scandals? The simple answer is greed. Greed so blinded CEO’s, auditors, and even members of Congress that they allowed a gang of rogue executives to rig the... Read more >
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Unscrewed
The Consumer's Guide to Getting What You Paid For
Written by Ron Burley
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $14.95
Every four seconds an unsuspecting consumer is duped by a cable company, cell phone provider, auto repair shop, or one of the numerous other businesses we use on a daily basis. As customer service departments have become automated wastelands, our ability to get satisfaction within the conventional complaint system has eroded... Read more >
The Consumer's Guide to Getting What You Paid For
Written by Ron Burley
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2006
Price: $14.95
Every four seconds an unsuspecting consumer is duped by a cable company, cell phone provider, auto repair shop, or one of the numerous other businesses we use on a daily basis. As customer service departments have become automated wastelands, our ability to get satisfaction within the conventional complaint system has eroded... Read more >
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The Truth About the Drug Companies
How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Written by Marcia Angell
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $15.95
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over... Read more >
How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Written by Marcia Angell
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2005
Price: $15.95
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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How Walmart Is Destroying America (And the World)
And What You Can Do about It
Written by Bill Quinn
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2005
Price: $10.95
After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3, 500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world'¬?s largest private employer. In this third edition of How Wal-Mart Is Destroying... Read more >
And What You Can Do about It
Written by Bill Quinn
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2005
Price: $10.95
After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3, 500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world'¬?s largest private employer. In this third edition of How Wal-Mart Is Destroying... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Truth About the Drug Companies
How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Written by Marcia Angell
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $13.99
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over... Read more >
How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
Written by Marcia Angell
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 24, 2004
Price: $13.99
During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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My First Book of Business Ethics
Written by Alan Axelrod
Format: Hardcover, 26 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2004
Price: $9.95
Business Ethics—simple as A, B, C.
The perfect little primer for today’s busy executive, My First Book of Business Ethics offers essential advice and practical tips in a format even a child could understand! Read more >
Written by Alan Axelrod
Format: Hardcover, 26 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2004
Price: $9.95
Business Ethics—simple as A, B, C.
The perfect little primer for today’s busy executive, My First Book of Business Ethics offers essential advice and practical tips in a format even a child could understand! Read more >
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Pigs at the Trough
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Written by Arianna Huffington
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2004
Price: $14.00
Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make do with their leftovers?
Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks... Read more >
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Written by Arianna Huffington
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2004
Price: $14.00
Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make do with their leftovers?
Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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