ABSTRACT

Before you read this book you should be aware of two things. First of all we, the authors, don’t like textbooks. Most of the textbooks that we have ever read have been too long, rather dull, and full of abstract examples and even more abstract theories. But most importantly, they don’t do anything interesting and relevant. They try to tell the student everything about a subject, and almost always end up saying not very much. They are little more than lists and tables, and often there isn’t much in those lists or tables. You can memorise the list for an exam, of course, but we wonder what you actually learn from that kind of book. It seems to us that this is what most business ethics textbooks are like.