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14. U.S. GAO Report, GAO/HRD-88-130BR: “Sweatshops” in the U.S.: Opinions on Their Extent and Possible Enforcement Options (U.S. General Accounting Office, 1988), /archive.gao.gov/d17t6/136973.pdf (May 20, 2010).
15. Steven Greenhouse, “Apparel Factory Workers Were Cheated, State Says,” New York Times, July 24, 2008, N.Y./Region section, www.nytimes
.com/2008/07/24/nyregion/24pay.html (May 20, 2010).
16. See Horace Fairlamb, “Adam Smith’s Other Hand: A Capitalist Theory of Exploitation,” Social Theory and Practice 22, no. 2 (1996), 193–223.
17. Ian Maitland, “The Great Non-debate over International Sweatshops,” Ethical Theory and Business, 6th ed., ed. Tom Beauchamp and Norman Bowie (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001), 593–605.
18. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics III.1, trans. W. D. Ross, classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.3.i.html (May 20, 2010).
19. For a further discussion of the relation between business and the environment see Johann A. Klaassen and Mari-Gretta G. Klaassen, “Speaking for Business, Speaking for Trees: Business and Environment in The Lorax,” in the present volume.
20. For example, W. Michael Hoffman, “Business and Environmental Ethics,” Business Ethics Quarterly 1 (1991), 169–84.
21. Norman Bowie, “Morality, Money, and Motor Cars,” in Business, Ethics, and the Environment: The Public Policy Debate, ed. W. Michael Hoffman, Robert Frederick, and Edward S. Petry Jr. (Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1990), 93.
Chapter 17
1. “Every once in a while I get mad. The Lorax . . . came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull. . . . I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.” Jonathan Cott, “The Good Dr. Seuss,” in Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel, ed. Thomas Fensch (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1997), 118.
2. Joseph R. DesJardins, Business, Ethics, and the Environment: Imagining a Sustainable Future (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2007), 125.
3. See DesJardins, Business, Ethics, and the Environment, 125–29.
4. DesJardins, Business, Ethics, and the Environment, 124–25.
5. DesJardins, Business, Ethics, and the Environment, 124.
6. Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment, 2nd ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 110–36.
7. Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth, 113.
8. One of the downsides to having a philosopher father is that such seemingly simple questions can prompt long answers . . . or long conversations. One of the upsides of being a philosopher father is that such long answers can, when applied carefully and at the proper moment, shorten the bedtime book-reading obligation considerably.
9. Herman Daly, Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996), 28.
10. Adam Jaffe, Steven Peterson, Paul Portney, and Robert Stavins, “Environmental Regulation and the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?” Journal of Economic Literature 33 (March 1995), 133.
11. DesJardins, Business, Ethics, and the Environment, 10.
12. Much of this section is based on the discussion of sustainability from Johann A. Klaassen, “Sustainability and Social Justice,” forthcoming in Responsible Investment in Times of Turmoil, ed. Wim Vandekerckhove, et al. (Springer Verlag).
13. Gro Harlem Brundtland and the World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987). “Development” in this context means economic and social growth: increasing economic activity, to be sure, but also thereby reducing unemployment, poverty, and social inequalities as well.
14. Frank Figge, “Capital Substitutability and Weak Sustainability Revisited: The Conditions for Capital Substitution in the Presence of Risk,” Environmental Values 14, 186. Notice the resemblance between this formulation and the “Lockean” proviso: the requirement that we leave “as much and as good” available