Ep. 360 Corporate Social Responsibility, or How Business Ethics Is Taught These Days

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So-called business ethics courses turn out in practice to be anti-capitalist propaganda sessions. Professor James Otteson joins us for a look at Corporate Social Responsibility and other fashions in the field, and how a true business ethics course should be taught. Show notes below!

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About the Guest

James R. Otteson is executive director of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, and Teaching Professor of Political Economy, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Fund for American Studies in Washington, DC, a Research Professor in the Freedom Center and Department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute in California.

Professor Otteson was recently named the Thomas W. Smith Presidential Chair in Business Ethics at Wake Forest University School of Business.

Guest’s Websites

JamesOtteson.com
BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, at Wake Forest University

Books by the Guest

The End of Socialism
What Adam Smith Knew: Moral Lessons on Capitalism from Its Greatest Champions and Fiercest Opponents

Guest’s Twitter

@jroii

Related Episodes

Ep. 337: The Fatal Errors of Socialism (James Otteson)
Ep. 325: Are Corporations Un-Libertarian? (Stephan Kinsella)
Ep. 119: The Environment and the Market (Walter Block)

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