Seeking Adam Smith: Finding the Shadow Curriculum of Business (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789813206724)

Seeking Adam Smith provides a fascinating insider's explanation for why business school faculty members, including the author, bear some responsibility for the highly destructive corporate practices evident throughout the first sixteen years of the 21st century.Since the Great Recession substantial resources and effort have been expended to incorporate ethics and corporate social responsibility into business curricula. The effectiveness of these efforts has been limited because they have little impact on the technical and core business courses serving as the gateway to the highest paying jobs. Students and practitioners may be led to conclude falsely that the business world is an ethics-free zone.Seeking Adam Smith demonstrates that greed is highly destructive motive for conducting business and the notion that greed is good is nowhere to be found in the Wealth of Nations despite claims by some of the world's leading economists. Cox offers alternative economic perspectives that are more realistic and less prone to misuse than those permeating the current business curricula.Seeking Adam Smith also contains a forward written by Thomas J. Ward who served as Senior Managing Partner of Bear Stearns during its demise and an afterward by Sherron Watkins, Enron whistle-blower and Time Person of the Year 2002.

Author: Eli P. Cox III
ISBN-10: 9813206721
ISBN-13: 9789813206724
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 05/23/2017
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2017 pg. 226