Moral Mazes

Robert Jackall presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. He takes the reader inside the intricate world of the corporation where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but where sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. This brilliant, sometimes disturbing, often wildly funny study of corporate thinking, decision-making, and morality presents compelling real
life stories of the men and women charged with running the businesses of America. This anniversary edition includes a new afterword by the author linking the themes contained in Moral Mazes to the current financial crisis.

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<br>"Some books have the rare fortune to become ever more relevant, more useful, and more interesting twenty years after they were written. This books fortune involves a kind of misfortune, because the phenomena that Moral Mazes analyzes are deplorable, and we would wish that the book were no longer relevant. Originally published in 1989, Moral Mazes has been supplemented for this second edition with a long analysis of how the 'organized irresponsibility' Jackall analyzed in the 1980s has become the key to understanding our current Great Recession. ... I can think of no single book that has more opened up my sense of how to do philosophy in the last year."--Philosophical Practice<p><br>"An interesting, unorthodox, and provocative book.... Better than any other I have seen, [Jackall's] study reveals the normative reality of the manager's world."-Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Yale Journal on Regulation<br><p><br>"Reformers who want to change the corporation, first must understand it. Robert J

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INTRODUCTION: BUSINESS AS A SOCIAL AND MORAL TERRAIN; 1. Moral Probations, Old and New; 2. The Social Structure of Managerial Work; 3. The Main Chance; 4. Looking Up and Looking Around; 5. Drawing Lines; 6. Dexterity with Symbols; 7. The Magic Lantern; 8. Invitations to Jeopardy; AUTHOR'S NOTE; AFTERWORD TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION; NOTES; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

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