Michael Boylan 
Business Ethics 

The second edition of Business Ethics introduces readers
to key ethical issues that arise within the world of business,
providing a strong theoretical foundation as well as real world
applications. This new edition has been greatly revised, and
includes new sections on the financial services industry,
globalization, and global economic justice.

* An accessible introduction for beginners, offering a
combination of important established essays and new essays
commissioned especially for this volume

* Greatly revised – more than half of the selections are new to
this edition. Newly commissioned essays address
information technology, global economic justice and globalization,
stakeholder theory, the corporation as an individual, and other
topics

* Uses diverse, authentic business cases to
illustrate discussion of concepts

* Cases have been updated to reflect current problems and
issues

* Provides students with guidance and tools to write their
own case study essays

* Readings are presented to progressively develop the
reader’s ability to read and apply ethical theory by writing
case responses from different vantage points

About the author

Michael Boylan is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at
Marymount University. He is the author and editor of 26 books,
including his manifesto on social/political philosophy A Just
Society (2004), and on cosmopolitanism Morality and Global
Justice: Justifications and Applications (2011). Boylan was
himself the focus of an edited volume, Morality and Justice:
Reading Boylan’s A Just Society (2009). He has served on
professional and governmental policy committees and was a fellow at
the Center for American Progress and a program presenter at The
Brookings Institution. He has been an invited speaker in nine
countries around the world, including talks in Oxford, Cambridge,
Cologne, Oslo, Dublin, Sydney, and the Sorbonne.