Why Business? What is the Role of Business in a Just and Humane Society

本课程是 Ethical Leadership 专项课程 的一部分

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Identify the main elements of a market economy

Explain how a market economy is supposed to work

Evaluate the strongest arguments for supporting a market economy

Evaluate the objections to the role of business in a market economy

Reflect on the role of business in a just and humane society

Create a personal vision statement for an honorable professional life

您将获得的技能

Business Ethics

Business Economics

Social Justice

Ethical Standards And Conduct

Economics

Social Impact

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The course examines the common perceptions of business (both positive and negative) and the role of business in a market economy by first introducing the main elements of a market economy, and then presenting opposing points of view of this economic model.The course encourages reflection upon the possibility that business can be honorable and play a role in a just and humane society.

Many people are suspicious of business. Should they be? Can business be honorable? Is business required to “give back” to society?

These are some of the questions you’ll consider during this first week of the course.

I will introduce you to common perceptions of business (negative and positive) and encourage you to reflect upon the possibility that business can be honorable and play a role in a just and humane society.

涵盖的内容

7个视频 22篇阅读材料 6个作业

Welcome to the Course! • 4分钟

Justice in a Commercial Society? • 10分钟

Adam Smith on Justice and Beneficence • 9分钟

Adam Smith's Explanation of the Wealth of Nations (Part

• 1)
• • 11分钟

Adam Smith’s Explanation of the Wealth of Nations (Part

• 2)
• • 7分钟

Pope St. John Paul II on the Nobility of Work • 9分钟

Recap of Justice in a Commercial Society? • 8分钟

Welcome • 10分钟

Course Overview & Requirements • 2分钟

Meet Your Instructor • 0分钟

Netiquette • 0分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Get help and meet other learners. Join your Community! • 5分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

“Market Reformer: An Economist Considers Pope Francis’ Critique of Capitalism” • 20分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Optional Resources • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Theory of Moral Sentiments • 55分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Wealth of Nations • 90分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Laborem Exercens • 60分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Week 1 Next Steps • 2分钟

Lesson 1.1 • 15分钟

Lesson 1.2 • 15分钟

Lesson 1.3 • 20分钟

Lesson 1.4 • 10分钟

Lesson 1.5 • 30分钟

Lesson 1.5 Reflection • 30分钟

Can everything be priced in a market? Where do prices come from, and what do they do? In this second week of the course, you will examine what prices do, learn about what they are for, and consider whether or not markets can price everything.

涵盖的内容

5个视频 17篇阅读材料 4个作业 1次同伴评审

Introduction to Value: Broken Windows and Prices • 4分钟

Bastiat’s What Is Seen and What Is Unseen • 13分钟

Hayek on Rational Economic Order and Prices • 12分钟

Sandel: Can Markets Price Everything? • 12分钟

Recap of Value: Broken Windows and Prices • 7分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen • 40分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Optional Resources • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

“The Use of Knowledge in Society” • 7分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Video: What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets • 34分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Optional Resources • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Week 2 Next Steps • 2分钟

Lesson 2.2 • 10分钟

Lesson 2.3 • 10分钟

Lesson 2.4 • 10分钟

Lesson 2.5 • 30分钟

Lesson 2.5 • 60分钟

What are the most important worries about or objections to market economies? Can markets be moral? In week 3, you will consider the social responsibilities of business. You will also consider criticisms of markets and arguments for government intervention in the economy.

涵盖的内容

5个视频 16篇阅读材料 5个作业 1次同伴评审

Introduction to Objections to Markets • 4分钟

Two Moral Objections from Karl Marx • 12分钟

G.

A. Cohen's Camping Trip: A Recent Case for Socialism

• • 11分钟

Cohen on Luck and Equality of Opportunity • 12分钟

Recap of Objections to Markets and Capitalism • 5分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Karl Marx’s “Free Human Production” • 20分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Why Not Socialism? • 20分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Optional Resources • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Optional Resources • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Week 3 Next Steps • 2分钟

Lesson 3.1 • 10分钟

Lesson 3.2 • 10分钟

Lesson 3.3 • 10分钟

Lesson 3.4 • 10分钟

Lesson 3.5 • 30分钟

Lesson 3.5 • 60分钟

Can one be fully moral and at the same time engage in business in a market economy?Can one express one’s moral values and live a virtuous life in business?In Week 4, you will come full circle to address the essential question of the course: Why business?

This week, you’ll reflect on the role of business in a just and humane society.You will also consider the role of business from your own perspective, and you will have a chance to examine (question) your own moral obligations as a person engaged in or with business.

涵盖的内容

6个视频 17篇阅读材料 5个作业 1次同伴评审

Introduction to Why Business? • 3分钟

Andrew Carnegie on the Duties of Wealth • 12分钟

Milton Friedman on the Social Responsibility of Business • 15分钟

Pope Francis on Economic Exclusion • 10分钟

Recap of Why Business? • 9分钟

Closing • 2分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

The Gospel of Wealth • 50分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 10分钟

The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profit • 30分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Pope Francis’s Evangelii Gaudium • 55分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Optional Resources • 2分钟

Introduction • 2分钟

Optional Resources • 2分钟

Optional Learning Activity • 2分钟

Week 4 Next Steps • 2分钟

Lesson 4.1 • 5分钟

Lesson 4.2 • 10分钟

Lesson 4.3 • 10分钟

Lesson 4.4 • 10分钟

Lesson 4.5 • 30分钟

Lesson 4.5 • 90分钟

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