Ethical Foundations of Freedoms: Economic and Political

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In a highly complex, interdependent technological society, the tolerance for deviant behaviour is narrower and shallower than in earlier times. One small bomb, in a power plant, can leave portions of a great city in darkness, close scores of manufacturing plants, disrupt airports, and spoil food in a hundred-thousand home freezers. The few individuals, who hijacked aeroplanes, cost a vast public millions of rupees and much inconvenience. Thus, as individuals and as a public, citizens have got to be more responsible and ethical than our grandparents needed to be. We must understand this obligation if we hope to live in freedom. The key to move upward to a new plateau of values, to a higher quality of life never reached by any other people, is the same that enabled man in the beginning to survive _ cooperation and reciprocity. Our technology has not served to make the golden rule obsolete, but, instead, has made its application increasingly essential. The book answers: What is ethics? How honesty can lead to freedom? How economics is grounded in the ethics? What is the relationship between economic and ethical evolution? How these relate to freedom? How adaptation and its disorder, maladaptation, bears upon matters of freedom, ethics and the place of free enterprise in contemporary society? What are the challenges faced by the free enterprise? What is the role of freedom and codes in capitalistic enterprises, transnational enterprises and bureaucracy? How ethics has acted as the law between unequals? What are the possibilities of legal limitations? How codes of ethics can be self-enforced? What role honesty and professional ethics play in the fields of medicine, law, accounting and government service? How codes of ethics are used and viewed by labour unions and chiefs of police? This is a pioneering work, where author attempts to address these and many such issues, comprehensively.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Naunihal Singh

Dr. Naunihal Singh earned the degrees of M.A. (Economics), M.A. (Sociology), L.L.B. (with International Law), Ph.D. (Management) and D.Litt. (International Business). He was also educated at the Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow, U.K, and La Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Dr. Singh taught as Professor of Business Administration at many institutions of USA. A prolific writer, Dr. Singh has authored about fifty books on National and International Affairs. Formerly Director in the Government of India, and Member, Board of Governors, Engineering College, Kurukshetra University, India, Dr. Singh has represented India at the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and Far East (ECAFE) at Addis Ababa. He negotiated trade with Japan on behalf of the Government of India during Expo ’70 held in Osaka. Dr. Singh travelled widely in Europe including England, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Combodia, Chile, Japan and other South-Eastern countries, and African countries. A wide spectrum person Dr. Singh was till recently a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha).

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Title
Ethical Foundations of Freedoms: Economic and Political
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8126110880
Length
viii+312p., 23cm.
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