Everyone's Business

What Companies Owe Society

Amit Ron, Abraham A. Singer

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University of Chicago Press
11 March 2025

Business ethics

Business is political. What are the ethics of it?

Businesses are political actors. They not only fund political campaigns, take stances on social issues, and wave the flags of identity groups – they also affect politics in their everyday hiring and investment decisions. As a highly polarized public demands political alignment from the powerful businesses they deal with, what's a company to do?

Amit Ron and Abraham Singer show that the unavoidably political role of companies in modern life is both the fundamental problem and inescapable fact of business ethics: corporate power makes business ethics necessary, and business ethics must strive to mitigate corporate power. Because of its economic and social influence, Ron and Singer forcefully argue that modern business's primary social responsibility is to democracy. Businesses must work to avoid wielding their power in ways that undermine key democratic practices like elections, public debate, and social movements. Pragmatic and urgent, Everyone's Business offers an essential new framework for how we pursue profit—and democracy—in our increasingly divided world.

By: Amit Ron, Abraham A. Singer
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9780226819839
ISBN 10: 0226819833
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 11 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amit Ron is associate professor of political science at Arizona State University. Abraham Singer is assistant professor of business at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of The Form of the Firm: A Normative Political Theory of the Corporation.

Reviews for Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society

“Everyone's Business is a contribution that brings power into the conversation about business ethics, showing how business can corrupt democratic politics.” -- Sarah Kaplan | author of ""The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation"" “Everyone's Business provides excellent and needed attention to how business relates to democracy, especially with respect to its externally facing policies.” -- Eric W. Orts | The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania