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In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution of necessary drugs. The ethnographies brought together in this timely collection analyze both the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical trade and the global inequalities that emerge from and are reinforced by market-driven medicine. They demonstrate that questions about who will be treated and who will not filter through every phase of pharmaceutical production, from preclinical research to human testing, marketing, distribution, prescription, and consumption.
Whether considering how American drug companies seek to create a market for antidepressants in Japan, how Brazil has created a model HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program, or how the urban poor in Delhi understand and access healthcare, these essays illuminate the roles of corporations, governments, NGOs, and individuals in relation to global pharmaceuticals. Some essays show how individual and communal identities are affected by the marketing and availability of medications. Among these are an exploration of how the pharmaceutical industry shapes popular and expert understandings of mental illness in North America and Great Britain. There is also an examination of the agonizing choices facing Ugandan families trying to finance AIDS treatment. Several essays explore the inner workings of the emerging international pharmaceutical regime. One looks at the expanding quest for clinical research subjects; another at the entwining of science and business interests in the Argentine market for psychotropic medications. By bringing the moral calculations involved in the production and distribution of pharmaceuticals into stark relief, this collection charts urgent new territory for social scientific research.
Contributors. Kalman Applbaum, João Biehl, Ranendra K. Das, Veena Das, David Healy, Arthur Kleinman, Betty Kyaddondo, Andrew Lakoff, Anne Lovell, Lotte Meinert, Adriana Petryna, Michael A. Whyte, Susan Reynolds Whyte
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Easy and Interesting.......2007-03-09
quick and cheap delivery, book is in great condition. the book itself is compiled of different authors so it covers a range of issues from different perspectives. The tone is more informative than defensive ar argumentative.
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“This book unfolds rather like a good novel; it is compelling and convincing. The authors approach their topic with a great deal of background and superb organizational abilities. As the premise unwinds, readers are provided with excellent explanation and justification, as well as real-life accounts of people and their experiences. As a side benefit, the book also yields an admirable example of well-done qualitative case studies that are triangulated effectively with survey methods.” --Sara U. Douglas, University of Illinois Social Responsibility in the Global Market illuminates an alternative way of conducting business that bridges the consumer’s social concerns and the producer’s financial concern through a compatible, nonexploitive, and humanizing system of fair trade. In-depth case studies introduce past successes and failures for seven Alternative Trading Organizations (ATOs) as they foster artisan empowerment, cultural integrity, and business sustainability. An integrative model synthesizes business conditions, tasks, and skills imperative for effective functioning of a fair trade system in an increasingly competitive global market. Mary Ann Littrell and Marsha Ann Dickson’s treatment of ATOs provides useful insights for academics in marketing, international development, entrepreneurship, and anthropology. In addition, this book offers practical finance for practitioners in international development, socially responsible businesses, and consumers concerned about impacts of their marketplace decisions.
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Going off the Rails: Global Capital and the Crisis of Legitimacy
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The capitalist model was developed in the 19th century and recent events have shown the difficulties of adapting this to the demands of the 21st century, in which human and social capital are of far greater importance than physical capital. In Going off the Rails, John Plender shows how corporate scandals, inflated boardroom pay, corporate governance disciplines and outmoded accountancy conventions have stretched the Anglo-American model to its limit and what the effects of this might be on globalisation and the capital markets.
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" In this thought-provoking work, writer and journalist John Plender explores the model of capitalism advocated by English-speaking countries and asks the following pertinent questions: -Why are developing countries financing the world's richest economy, instead of the other way round? -How have the markets come to appear so unstable? -What is causing the erosion of the wealth creation process? and -Is the conventional view of this model actually correct? The capitalist model was developed in the 19th century and recent events have shown the difficulties of adapting this to the demands of the 21st century, in which human and social capital are of far greater importance than physical capital. In Going off the Rails, John Plender shows how corporate scandals, inflated boardroom pay, corporate governance disciplines and outmoded accountancy conventions have stretched the Anglo-American model to its limit and what the effects of this might be on globalisation and the capital markets. "
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A step-by-step review of the inner logic and values of the global market when it is viewed as a "total value system." McMurtry's explorations are powered by an interdisciplinary method that avoids specialized terminology or jargon. He employs easy-to-follow arguments and presents focused analyses while connecting market theory and practice in a unified understanding of the planetary threat of the "new world order."
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A critique of market ideology, with positive alternatives........1998-07-17
This is a very thoroughly researched book with an impassioned social message on money, ethics and human values. The author's arguments are complex and any serious critique of the author's arguments requires upon a reading and analysis of the book itself.
McMurtry is Professor of Philosoophy at University of Guelph and has been an active thinker and leader in analyzing and opposing the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). His book provides a comprehensive account of the economic and social history which underlie these modern trends, and the errors and problems involved.
The question of freedom and its nature is basic to life and society, and conventional market theory is very superficial and self-serving in this regard. The Market is an abstract entity with powers as formerly ascribed to God, and belief in market absolutes ("there is no alternative") is based upon ideologies and rationalizations not fully grounded in real-world human and ecological v! ! alues. The basic problem lies in a value system for which money (the services and goods it commands by social agreement) is seen as the only practical measure, and is treated as absolute. Values attached to meeting human needs for development and well-being, including sustainable ecology, are given short shrift.
The problems are deeper than those of class structures, for the values held do in fact condition views of what constitute reality itself. Minds are programmed by such values to perceive the system as commanded by nature as laws of nature and of God. However, the problem is not "human nature". It is rather the inertness and habituation of the mind, a condition that does not question or allow the reevaluation of socially conditioned and programmed values. People thinking within this closed order do not recognize what they are part of, and see things as "the way things are". Beliefs are seen not as values but as realities. Such value systems unde! ! rlie the global market. (In a similar way, theology underla! y the world view of the Middle Ages, and provided the logical ground and justification for procedures of the Inquisition.)
We may think that a value system goes wrong because there is a gap between what its proponents claim to adhere to as values, and what they in fact do. that is not the problem here. The problem is that the market metric does not include natural resources or human needs (as contrasted with economic demands) as values in its calculus. What the market designates as value is all that counts. Externalities and side-effects or human and ecological devastation are not considered.
The problem is, such is the trust in the "invisible hand", that relevant questions are not asked, not conprehended, and ruled out of order. Also, the global market is not the same as the classical capitalist market, and has little even in common with a *producer's* market.
The process of confining consciousness within the closed loop of a social value regime continures unt! ! il it is recognized to be in clear contradiction to reason and the senses. It is necessary, for survival, to open the old mind-set to question, in order to adjust to life realities that the value system has excluded from view.
McMurtry deals with many issues: the distinction between reality and representations; historical backgrounds; Adam Smith, John Locke and the development of economic theory and practice; the market and faith in its "invisible hand" as God; sin against market laws and punishments; money and private property; profit, competition and the socila good; free markets and democracy; market metaphysics (and true meanings); global markets and planetary health; the decoupling of capital from civil and environmental life; mutations of the profit systems and the logic of the world-system crisis; and the economics of life and death. Changes in the direction of life values are outlined.
In my view this is a book that deserves a lot of close attention and ! ! discussion.
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What special ethical problems arise for managers and employees of companies when they do business in countries and cultures other than their own? The essays in this book address the multifaceted aspects of this question and offer a range of thoughtful responses.
- Ellen Frankel Paul examines two sexual harassment suits filed in America against Mitsubishi and turns the company's public relations debacle into an excellent case study of how a corporation should not act when doing business in a foreign land.
- Elaine Sternberg goes beyond cultural relativism to show how the diversity and complexity of circumstances and values in different parts of the world are in fact perfectly compatible with universally valid principles of business ethics.
- Amartya Sen explodes the myth that the tradition of authoritarian governance and the suppression of political and civil rights in Asian culture is actually beneficial to economic development.
- Robert W. McGee reveals the fatal flaws in utilitarian approaches to trade policy and argues that all trade is essentially individual contract—and that an ethical trade policy cannot violate the property or contract rights of those individuals.
Throughout the book the contributors consistently underscore a fundamental principle that ethical companies in all cultures must never lose sight of—to abstain from contributing in any way to the violation of basic individual rights.
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Business Ethics in the Global Market.......2007-03-11
This book aboslutely has nothing to do with business ethics and the editor, Tibor A. Machan, must not have read the papers included in this publication. His summary on the back cover are false and completely misleading. I would not recommend this book to anyone. I cannot fathom why my instructor made this a required reading for a business ethics class.
This is poorly written, difficult to follow, and cannot be linked to business ethics.
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Gordon Brown, Jonathan Sacks, Joseph Stiglitz, Hans Kung, Shirley Williams, and a dozen other leading thinkers in international business and ethics identify the pressing moral issues which global capitalism must answer. How can we develop a global economic architecture which is efficient, morally acceptable, geographically inclusive, and sustainable over time? If global capitalism -- arguably the most efficient wealth creating system currently known to man -- is to be both economically viable and socially acceptable, each of its four constituent institutions (markets, governments, supranational agencies, and civil society) must not only be technically competent, but also be buttressed and challenged by a strong moral ethos. The book includes contributions from leading academics, politicians, and moralists. Recognizing that solutions will not come from any one quarter, and that any serious discussion of a just and equitable system will touch on questions of ethics and faith, the book approaches the issues from a range of different disciplines and forums.
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The Usual Suspects.......2003-07-13
In this volume we hear first from Deepak Lal in his essay "History, Morality and Capitalism," a tone-setting essay where the historians such as Louis Dumont and Michael Oakshott are cited in a condensed narrative of the worldwide history of mankind. Here we find Lal takes for granted man's inherent nature as a creature who wishes to "truck and barter," the Smithian assertion that much twentieth century ethnographic research has called into question. Yet Las makes this assertion as confidently as those made for centuries in the West that women have no souls, and that blacks have no right to their bodies, and in the East that Untouchables are unclean.
He moves to the "moral" and "historical" part of his essay by tracing the split between the Western and the Eastern traditional beliefs to the rise of capitalism to the restrictions of the early medieval Catholic Church. The church he claims changed the rules around the traditional distribution of patrimony by creating new laws and moral injunctions with respect to the distribution of wealth to heirs, injunctions which created a widow class who, because they were enjoined to follow the new law against remarriage after the death of a husband were ripe fruit for importunate priests who drew their fortunes into the church treasury. A very lucrative practice, this resulted in fabulous wealth for the medieval church according to Lal.
Lal also explores the Western moral and economic philosophers starting with St. Augustine's vision of the shining city on a hill, then moves to the high Enllightement with Kant's universalistic moral creed which sought to demostrate that man was naturally moral and that that God (though still alive) was not necessary to moral behavior. Lal notes that once Darwin declared "God is blind," and later Nietzche proclaimed that "God is dead" the confusions wrought by ultilitarianism and consequentialism thoroughly dis-enchanted the world. Through one of Nietzche's aphorisms -- "moral sensibilites are nowadays at such cross purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it" -- the end of idealist philosophy is demonstrated.
Toward the end of the essay he suggests that any movement that would seek to undermine the trajectory of the capitalist economic ethos through a communalist or cooperative approach is "atavistic," and with that one word attempts to dismiss any evidence of or hope for less destructive arrangments among mankind. He uses the word at least three or four times, as if in its repitition it might become the more true. Another word he likes is Ecofundamentalists, a word he takes credit for inventing, and with which he attempts to discredit groups and people around the world who do not readily accede to what business theory eumphemistically calls "externalities," but which most people more simply call "pollution."
He finally ends the essay by suggesting international business consider a Humean common sense perspective. Hume, he says, saw that families have raised children to certain standards of behavior and "golden rule" beliefs for thousands of years without recourse to the potential divisiveness caused by different beliefs of followers of the various world religions diand. He maintains that it is these home truths of human behavior which should be invoked in global economic arrangements as they best represent the most common arrangements of humanity worldwide, a strategy which would avoid the misunderstandings generated between followers of various religions.
Similar to his earlier advancement of the universal creed of "truck and barter," is the practice of the universal home truths. Even if this assertion is to be granted, it prompts one to ask why capitalism should be allowed to piggy-back on these home truths, these relations which are generally altruistic or famlial in nature. Further, one could ask whether it is appropriate for capitialism to rely on these human arrangements given the self-seeking behavior promoted by capitalism. Will it not destroy the very arrangements it is piggy-backing on, or, more pointedly, isn't there ample proof that it has already? This essay is fairly representative of the essays in this volume; a dry, and supposedly "objective" manual designed for international business class and governmental and academic technocrats who have recently been forced by protests all over the world to examine the potential snarls they might run into as the world is remade in the image of the almighty dollar.
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The Catholic Ethic and Global Capitalism
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The recent failures of Enron, WorldCom, and other large publicly traded corporations have catapulted the issue of corporate governance onto the international stage. In this timely book, Janis Sarra draws together the work of legal scholars and practitioners from across North America to provide a comprehensive analysis of corporate governance issues in global capital markets.
The contributors to this collection explore the theoretical underpinnings of corporate governance and provide concrete illustrations of different models and their outcomes. While the perspectives of the authors sometimes differ their common project is to explore different normative conceptions of the corporation in order to contribute to an anlysis of global trends in corporate governance. The book measures diverse theoretical perspectives against the reality of corporate operations in current capital markets, exploring the norms that inform shifts in governance practice and the influence of regulatory regimes on governance change. Relationships both within and outside the firm are explored, including issues of accountability, ethics in decision making, and notions of efficiency in generation of corporate wealth.
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Global Environmental Economics: Equity and the Limits to Markets
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By focusing on the implications for future generations and the people of developing countries, the editors seek to provide an alternative to standard approaches that focus on the short run solutions consumers or markets are willing to support. The work also illustrates that new developments in social choice theory offer a better foundation than traditional welfare economics.Upon perceiving the need for a fresh orientation toward global environmental issues, the editors organized an international conference at Cornell University to study the equity dimension. This collection is the result of the conference and represents the collaboration of economists, ethicists, political scientists, demographers and ecologists.Global Environmental Economics: Equity and the Limits to Markets illustrates that the issues of equity can be applied to global environmental problems as well as take a more central role in economic theory.
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