Business Ethics Resource Center | Part 2
II. Topics covered in lectures:
- American business: economics and finance science concepts.
- Why free market economics (“capitalism”) works:
- I, Pencil video;. Munger on the division of labor…audio.
- LearnLiberty on why we exchange…video.
- Friedman on the role of economic freedom in creating wealth…episode #1 of “Freedom to Choose.”
- ThinkTank critical history of socialism…video.
- Otteson on the defects of socialism…audio.
- Prof. Norberg on whether the so-called ‘Swedish model’ or ‘the Swedish third way’ really works…video.
- Adam Smith:
- Brief intro lecture to Adam Smith…video.
- Macfarlane at Cambridge on Smith…video.
- Phillipson on Adam Smith…audio.
- Roberts and Fleishacker on Smith’s Wealth of Nations…video.
- Otteson on Adam Smith…audio.
- YaleCourses on Adam Smith…video.
- Nobel Prize winner Vernon Smith on Adam Smith…audio.
- Roberts on Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments…audio.
- Incorporation:
- Publically versus privately-held corporations:
- Government sponsored enterprises:
- RT News definition of GSEs…video.
- Profits vs. non-profits:
- Acha on profits vs. nonprofits…video.
- Cooperatives:
- Asset types:
- Khan Academy bond vs. stock…video.
- Risk and reward:
- Why free market economics (“capitalism”) works:
- American business: business law basics.
- Common Law:
- British panel discussion on the differences between common law and civil law systems…video.
- Tort law:
- Wiley on tort law (five episodes)…video.
- The McDonald’s coffee cup case:
- NYT retrospective report on the McDonald’s coffee cup case…video.
- Loser pay systems:
- American Constitution Society panel discussion (very critical) of loser pay systems…video.
- Sovereign immunity:
- Robertson on sovereign immunity…video.
- Common Law:
- Ethical theories.
- Hedonism:
- Egoism:
- Philosophy Tube on Mandeville and psychological egoism…video.
- School of Life short video on Thomas Hobbes…video.
- Discussion on Hobbes…audio.
- Short intro lecture to Nietzsche…audio.
- TeachPhilosophy on psychological egoism…audio.
- TeachPhilosophy on psychological egoism…part II…evidence…audio.
- Donahue interview with Ayn Rand…video.
- Mike Wallace interview of Ayn Rand…video.
- Applications of egoism:
- Public choice theory (PCT):
- Principal/agent (agency) problem:
- Moral hazard:
- Utilitarianism:
- Tuggy on J. S. Mill…video.
- Kantianism:
- Tuggy on Kant’s ethics…video.
- Natural rights ethics:
- Virtue ethics:
- Tuggy on Aristotle’s ethics…video.
- Models of corporate social responsibility.
- Market failure:
- MJMfoodie short lecture on market failure…video.
- MJMfoodie short lecture on public goods…video.
- MJMfoodie short lecture on externalities…audio.
- Pajholden lecture on six types of market failure…video.
- Pajholden lecture on negative externalities…video.
- Pajholden lecture on positive externalities insufficiency…video.
- Friedman on government as cure for market failure…video.
- LearnLiberty on Coase theorem…video.
- The shareholder/free market model (Friedman):
- The philanthropic model:
- The moral minimum model (Bowie):
- Norman Bowie on business ethics…six clips…video.
- The multiple stakeholder model (Freeman):
- The sustainability model (Desjardins):
- The classical liberal model (Jason):
- Prof. Ashford on the nature of classical liberalism…video.
- Prof. Davies on the history of classical liberalism…video.
- Prof. Davies on the decline of classical liberalism (and its current rise again)…video.
- ABC News documentary on the fall of Western communism…8 part video.
- Khan Academy on social institutions…video.
- Anightonearth lecture on social institutions…video.
- Cramer on social institutions…video.
- Market failure:
- Models of work.
- Work in general:
- de Botton on the pleasures and sorrows of work…audio.
- Conventional model:
- Harper on Aristotle and slavery…video.
- Human fulfillment model:
- Progressive liberal model:
- Classical liberal model:
- Pew definition of mobility…video.
- Frenzy763 short talk on education and social mobility…video.
- Best Film Archives documentary on American immigration…video.
- PBS documentary on Jewish immigration into America…video.
- PBS documentary on Irish immigration to America…part I video.
- PBS Irish immigration documentary…part II video.
- PBS Irish immigration documentary…part III video.
- PBS Irish immigration documentary…part IV video.
- The evolution of work:
- Work in general:
- Employee rights.
- The right to work without being forced to support a union:
- Friedman on who protects worker rights…episode 8 of “Freedom to Choose”…video.
- The right to a guaranteed job:
- The right to strong due process before termination:
- The right to a minimum wage:
- Intelligence squared debate “Abolish the minimum wage“.
- Milton Friedman debate on the minimum wage…video.
- Friedman on who protects workers’ rights…episode 8 of “Freedom to Choose”…video.
- The right to a democratic workplace:
- Wolff and Alperovitz on workplace democracy…video.
- Workplace safety:
- Workplace privacy:
- The right to work without being forced to support a union:
- Employee responsibilities.
- The Enron case:
- The standard view:
- Loyalty in the workplace:
- Whistle-blowing:
- Product safety and regulation.
- The four Ps of marketing:
- Product liability law:
- Hall on Ohio product liability law…video.
- Strict product liability:
- The costs and benefits of regulation:
- Unintended consequences:
- Reason TV spoof documentary “Great Moments in Unintended Consequences”…video.
- Prof. Parker on the unintended consequences of auto mileage regulations…video.
- Friedman on regulation and unintended consequences…video.
- Ken Burns on Prohibition and unintended consequences…video.
- Prof. Peltzman on the net effects of regulation…audio.
- Stossel on the law of unintended consequences of law…video.
- Regulatory capture:
- Rent-seeking:
- Regulatory drag:
- Unintended consequences:
- Product pricing issues.
- Economics of pricing:
- Price fixing:
- Monopoly:
- Convenience pricing:
- Price gouging:
- Government subsidies:
- Brutal competitive pricing/value loop:
- Dumping:
- Marketing ethics.
- Galbraith on marketing:
- Galbraith vs. Buckley on Galbraith’s view of marketing…part I audio.
- Galbraith vs. Buckley…part II audio.
- Galbraith vs. Buckley…part III audio.
- Galbraith vs. Buckley…part IV audio.
- Galbraith vs. Buckley…part V audio.
- Galbraith vs. Buckley…part VI audio.
- Marketing and manipulation:
- Galbraith on marketing:
- International business ethics.
- Moral relativism:
- Globalization and international trade theory:
- ImportGenius brief history of international trade…video.
- Prof. Norberg on why globalization is good…video.
- Matt Ridley TED talk on trade and ideas having sex…video.
- University of South Africa lecture on international trade theory—comparative vs. absolute advantage…video.
- LearnLiberty on comparative advantage…video.
- JourneymanTV documentary on the growth and value of international trade…video.
- British documentary on international trade and prosperity…video.
- Don Boudreaux on globalization and trade deficits…audio.
- Don Boudreaux on China, Currency Manipulation, and Trade Deficits…audio.
- Protectionism: