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

By Robert White

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert White
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781498542654
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4265-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Business ethics & social responsibility, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Political science and theory, Business ethics and social responsibility, Economic theory and philosophy