THE ETHICS OF MANAGEMENT Fifth Edition LARUE TONE HOSMER Professor Emeritus of Corporate Strategy and Managerial Ethics School of Business Administration University of Michigan McGraw-Hill 2006 PART I Face ethical issues with confidence LaRue Hosmer believes leadership is essential for ethics, especially in today’s business environment where pressures to dodge issues and cut corners …
Book review In Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalization we are told that: “These three dimensions of ecological security, livelihood security and food security are the essential elements of an agriculture policy which is both sustainable and equitable.” “The current processes of globalisation threaten to undermine all three dimensions of sustainable agriculture.” …
Book Review In Part 4 of Seeking Sustainability in an Age of Complexity Graham Harris tells us that: “The emerging solutions require a new world view.” “The application of physics to the high frequency dynamics of markets (using data on market fluctuations at scales of minutes) has resulted in a discipline called financial physics …
Book Review THE ASCENT OF MAN JACOB BROWNOWSKI MACDONALD FUTURA PUBLISHERS 1973 PART I Dr Bronowski’s magnificent thirteen-part BBC television series The Ascent of Man traced our rise – both as a species and as moulders of our environment and future. The book of the programmes covers the history of science, but of science …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART VII Introduction On February 1, 1990 Bruce Lansdale was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Agriculture by the Faculty of Agriculture of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki. This part of the Bruce Lansdale Memorial is the Introduction by Professor Lucas Ananikas, Chairman of the Department of Agricultural …
Book Review A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED E. F. SCHUMACHER ABACUS 1977 PART II Chapter 2. Levels of Being PART I Our task is to look at the world and to see it whole. We see what our ancestors have always seen; a great ‘Chain of Being’ divided naturally into four sections or …
Book Review A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED E. F. SCHUMACHER ABACUS 1977 PART I Introduction A Guide for the Perplexed was published shortly after Dr Schumacher’s (better known for his book Small is Beautiful in which he proposes a dramatically new perspective on economics) death and was described by one reviewer as ‘last words …
