Recently added articles from American Business Law Journal:
Peace Through Commerce: An Overview
Jul 01, 2007; ... Ten years ago, there was little debate on whether business might promote peace despite great minds, stretching from Montesquieu and Kant to Hayek, having made macro arguments on the role of trade in the peace process. We have had, after all, global trade for a long time that did little to ...
The Good Company: Rhetoric or Reality? Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics Redux
Jul 01, 2007; ... In the hour when an individual is brought before the heavenly court for judgment, the person asked: Did you conduct your business affairs honestly? Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a Falsifying and cheating with the weights is forbidden. While I am weighing the goods, God is ...
Responsible Business: Weaving the Fabric of a Stable Marketplace
Jul 01, 2007; ... Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tim, thank you for inviting me to speak at this important conference. I am pleased to be here on behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce.1 I. BACKGROUND Those of you who know me know how dear my carpet collection is to me. To me, they are ...
Corporate Citizenship and Trustworthy Capitalism: Cocreating a More Peaceful Planet
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Industrial Age has been an epoch of harvesting natural and social capital to produce productive and financial capital. We have destroyed forests, topsoil, and farmland, and with those the habitat for many species. The loss of biological diversity has been matched by the loss of cultural ...
The Times and Seasons of Corporate Responsibility
Jul 01, 2007; ... There L· a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven . . . A time for war and at time for peace.2 I. Introduction In 2001, less than two months after the September 1 1 attacks, I co-hosted the first conference on Corporate Governance and Sustainable Peace ...