Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS LAW.These acts were driven excessive profit motive or green. This was justified by utilitarian ethics as espoused by John Stuart Mil

Create a 2 page essay paper that discusses INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS LAW.

These acts were driven excessive profit motive or green. This was justified by utilitarian ethics as espoused by John Stuart Mill that a course of action that has favourable outcome is a preferred choice of action. It was reinforced by Jeremy Bentham’s theory of utility that an action with the greatest use is the right course of action. This may sound unfortunate but these are the guidelines that most business follow. According to Crane and Matten, if business is left on its own, it will resort to whatever means possible to make a profit consistent with the principles of utility. It will capitalize on ambiguous ethical issues such as the promotion of companies likely to fail and poor financial instruments just to profit. This calls for the application of moral philosophy to clarify the ambiguous ethical issues that companies deal with (Crane and Matten 35).

The presence of moral guidelines in the business practice of companies would have made the actors in our economy as documented in the film Inside Job differently. First, investment bankers would not have promoted dotcom companies when they knew that it would fail. They would have cautioned investors that the increasing stock valuation of dotcom companies are artificial and that the bubble will eventually burst because the companies does not have real value to speak of. Instead of promoting dotcom companies to profit, they would have promoted companies that have solid business foundation albeit the profits are conservation. The same principle should be followed by Goldman Sachs whose indiscretion dragged everybody into recession. Goldman Sachs should not have promoted and lied about low value collaterized debt obligations (CDO) knowing that they are merely backed by subprime mortgages whom they knew were loans that never be paid. Had they followed Kant’s deontological ethics, they would have instead advised investors to be cautious with CDOs