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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Consumer Ethics in a Global Economy

Consumer Ethics in a Global Economy

How Buying Here Causes Injustice There

ISBN: 9781626166967
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Workers in distant nations who produce the products we buy frequently suffer from accidents, managerial malfeasance, and injustice. Are consumers who bought the products made by these workers in any way morally responsible for those injustices? And what about the far more frequent, less severe injustices, such as the withholding of wages, the denial of bathroom breaks, forced overtime, and harassment of various sorts? Could buying a shirt at the local department store create for you some responsibility for the horrendous death in a factory fire of the women who sewed it half a planet away?

By Daniel K. Finn

Imprint: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Format: PAPERBACK

Pages: 184

Introduction Part I: Our Situation1. Understanding Our Individualistic Cultural Bias 2. Why Economics Sees Markets Individualistically 3. Are Consumers Responsible for Injustices a World Away? Part II: Critical Realism 4. Critical Realism and Natural Science 5. Social Structures 6. Power 7. The Market as a Social Structure Part III: Implications8. Sinful Social Structures 9. Economic Ethics in a Stratified World 10. What Can Be Done about Market Injustice? Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author

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