The academic coverage of business ethics: does economics measure up?

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The,  July, 1995  by David J. Hoaas,  Don C. Wilcox

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Schoell, William F. and Joseph P. Guiltinan. Marketing Contemporary Concepts and Practices, 5th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1992.

Skinner, Steven J. Marketing, 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Stanton, William J., Michael J. Etzel, and Bruce J. Walker. Fundamentals of Marketing, 10th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Zikmund, William G. and Michael d'Amico. Marketing, 4th ed. St. Paul, MN: West, 1993.

Principles of Management Textbooks

Bateman, Thomas S., and Carl P. Zeithiml. Management Function and Strategy, 2nd ed. Homewood, IL: Irwin, 1993.

Certo, Samuel C. Modern Management, 6th ed. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1994.

Daft, Richard L. Management, 3rd ed. Orlando, FL: Dryden, 1994.

Griffin, Ricky W. Management, 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

Hellriegel, Don and John W. Slocum, Jr. Management, 6th ed. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1992.

Robbins, Stephen P. Management, 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1994.

Schermerhorn, John R., Jr. Management for Productivity, 4th ed. New York: John Wiley, 1993.

Stoner, James A. F., and R. Edward Freiman. Management, 5th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992.

Trewatha, Robert L., M. Gene Newport, and J. Lynn Johnson. Management, revised ed. Houston, TX: Dame, 1993.

Herbert Stein: On Convictions

In disavowing liberal or conservative convictions, I do not mean to suggest that I have no convictions. But my convictions do not all fit comfortably within either the liberal or the conservative box, and I am hesitant about the derivation of policy decisions in particular cases from general ideologies or attitudes. The principle that seems to me to require the least qualification is that the government should not intervene in the heart of the market - in the determination of relative prices and the allocation of labor and capital among various industries. But beyond that, the policy issues are more difficult and require more case-by-case discrimination. I believe that the government has major responsibilities for maintaining conditions in which high employment can be achieved and the general level of prices will be stable, in which the poor and disadvantaged are assisted, and in which competition is preserved. But how far these objectives should be pursued, by what means, and with what expectations for success are issues that should be considered open-mindedly and with full awareness of the limitations of our knowledge. We will not find the answers in the back of the textbook. Some of the policy questions now facing the country are discussed, I hope in this open-minded way, in parts of this book.(*)

* From the "Introduction" to On the Other Hand, Washington: The AEI Press, 1995

The Economics of Stealth

There is a homely but well-accepted American colloquialism which says that 'The silent hog eats the swill,' . . . it happens that American conditions during the past one hundred years have been peculiarly favourable to the patient and circumspect man who will rather wait than work. . . . America has been a land of free and abounding resources; which is to say, when converted into terms of economic theory, that it is the land of the unearned increment."