Moral Case for Profit Maximization

The Moral Case for Profit Maximization considers the moral status of profit maximization, arguing that profit maximization is moral when businessmen seek to maximize profit by forming values and cultivating the virtues.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter One: The Questions of Profit Maximization

Chapter Two: Why Profit Maximization is Moral

Chapter Three: The Objective Value of Goods and Services

Chapter Four: The Virtues of Businessmen

Chapter Five: Clarifying Confusions About Profit Maximization

Chapter Six: Incomplete Defenses of Profit Maximization

Chapter Seven: The Inconvenient Truth About Corporate Social Responsibility

Conclusion

About the author

Robert White is dean of faculty and assistant professor of philosophy at the American University in Bulgaria.

Summary

The Moral Case for Profit Maximization considers the moral status of profit maximization, arguing that profit maximization is moral when businessmen seek to maximize profit by forming values and cultivating the virtues.

Additional text

"Robert White writes elegantly. The economic function of profit is well understood, yet, still often needed is explanation of the ethical significance of profit as reward-both material and symbolic-for productive achievement within a system of voluntary transactions. White argues forthrightly with compelling examples and clear logic."

Product details

• Authors: Robert White
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781498542630
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4263-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Capitalist Thought: Studies in
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Unternehmensethik und soziale Verantwortung, CSR, Wirtschaftstheorie und -philosophie, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Business / Economics / Finance