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  2. Market failure - Wikipedia

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    Different economists have different views about what events are the sources of market failure. Mainstream economic analysis widely accepts that a market failure (relative to Pareto efficiency) can occur for three main reasons: if the market is "monopolised" or a small group of businesses hold significant market power, if production of the good or service results in an externality (external ...

  3. Organizational ethics - Wikipedia

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    a written code of ethics and standards (ethical code) ethics training for executives, managers, and employees; the availability of ethical situational advice (i.e. advice lines or offices) confidential reporting systems [6] Organizations are constantly striving for a better ethical atmosphere within the business climate and culture.

  4. Friedman doctrine - Wikipedia

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    Friedman introduced the theory in a 1970 essay for The New York Times titled "A Friedman Doctrine: The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Its Profits". [2] In it, he argued that a company has no social responsibility to the public or society; its only responsibility is to its shareholders. [2]

  5. Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia

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    But in his essay, he also focused on the use of larger (though finite) resources such as the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, as well as pointing out the "negative commons" of pollution (i.e., instead of dealing with the deliberate privatization of a positive resource, a "negative commons" deals with the deliberate commonization of a negative ...

  6. Totality and Infinity - Wikipedia

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    Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (French: Totalité et Infini: essai sur l'extériorité) is a 1961 book about ethics by the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Highly influenced by phenomenology , it is considered one of Levinas's most important works.

  7. Stakeholder theory - Wikipedia

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    Examples of a company's internal and external stakeholders Protesting students invoking stakeholder theory at Shimer College in 2010. The stakeholder theory is a theory of organizational management and business ethics that accounts for multiple constituencies impacted by business entities like employees, suppliers, local communities, creditors, and others. [1]

  8. Free-rider problem - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] This free rider problem also raises questions in regards to the fairness and ethics of these practices, as countries most likely to suffer the consequences of climate change, are also those who typically emit the least greenhouse gases and have fewer economic resources to contribute to the efforts, such as the small island ...

  9. Public economics - Wikipedia

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    Public economics (or economics of the public sector) is the study of government policy through the lens of economic efficiency and equity.Public economics builds on the theory of welfare economics and is ultimately used as a tool to improve social welfare.