Teaching Ethics Across the Management Curriculum

CHAPTER 6

Ethical Dimensions in the Teaching of Economics and the Tradition of Critical Political Economy

Patrick O’Sullivan

Grenoble Ecole de Management and University of Warsaw

Introduction

This book is broadly concerned with the question of how ethical concerns can be integrated into the teaching of a variety of disciplines connected to typical business curricula. The relevance of ethical concerns to disciplines such as marketing or human resource management or corporate finance is evident and the points where ethical considerations can be put before students in the teaching of these subjects are easy to see. For example, the relevance of considerations of human rights and nondiscrimination against minorities becomes directly relevant to the ...