Insider trading - moral issues
- Insider trading is bad
- Marketplace can only work when perceived honest and offers equal investment opportunity
- Insider trading can be ok
- It accelerates the flow of negative and positive information to other shareholders and investors
- Ergo : this information is more quickly reflected in stock's price
Trade secrets
- Problem : when is it a secret and when is it part of employee's own intellect and expertise ?
- Moral problem : Firm's right to protect its secrets vs employee's right to see employment wherever he chooses
Is gift giving morally acceptable
- 7 considerations
- value of the gift
- its purpose
- the circumstances under which it is given
- position of the person receiving the gift
- accepted business practice
- company policy
- what the law says
Moral perspectives on job discrimination
- No respectable arguments for job discrimination
- Utilitarianism : false assumptions + harm individual members of minorities = decrease in total welfare
- Kant : fails to respect people as ends in and of themselves. CI of universalism not met
- Rawls : discrimination is unjust as people discriminating would choose equal treatment for themselves