Consuming choices [[electronic resource] ] : ethics in a global consumer age / / David T. Schwartz
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| Autore: |
Schwartz David T
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| Titolo: |
Consuming choices [[electronic resource] ] : ethics in a global consumer age / / David T. Schwartz
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (149 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 174 |
| Soggetto topico: | Consumption (Economics) - Moral and ethical aspects |
| Ethics, Modern - 21st century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Ethical consumerism -- 2. Caveat emptor? -- 3. The consumer as causal agent -- 4. The consumer as complicit participant -- 5. Toward a practical consumer ethic. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Do consumers shoulder some culpability for unethical and immoral practices associated with products they purchase? To answer, David T. Schwartz provides the most detailed philosophical exploration to date on consumer ethics. He utilizes historical and fictional examples to illustrate the types of wrongdoing currently implicated by consumer products in this age of globalization, offers a clear description of the relevant moral theories and important ethical concepts, and provides concrete suggestions on how to be a more ethical consumer. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Consuming choices |
| ISBN: | 1-282-56123-5 |
| 9786612561238 | |
| 1-4422-0430-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457119803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Philosophy and the global context.