CHEATING: THE ORIGIN, NATURE, IMPORTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF BUSINESS AND OTHER ETHICS

"This book began by formulating some important questions relating to the subject of business and other related ethics in order to investigate and better understand the subject. These questions include: Where did ethics come from? What is their origin and history? What constitutes their nature, description, dimension and characteristics, starting with animal behavior, religion, living in a community, values, philosophy and other possible sources? Does evolution always produce better ethics? Are ethics the same for everybody? Do or can universal ethics exist? Do ethics change depending upon gender and with whom you are dealing – family members, friends, strangers or foes? Do ethics vary at different times like environmental ethics? Are ethics subject specific? Are ethics separated from business? Are some businesses in whole or in part unethical? Does ethical conduct pay and if so for whom? Can ethics be enforced thru law and enforcement of justice? What is the relation of ethics, (morality), law and justice? How are ethics formalized and transmitted to future generations? Can research help us improve ethics? Why are ethics important? What role does government play in trying to reach an ethical society? And what are the consequences if government is not ethical? These are some of the questions this book attempts to answer. To do so, where possible, the author has cited history, experience and the best scholars he could find from a wide variety of specialized fields. The most important areas of knowledge drawn on in this book are biology, the study of animals (ethology), the study of primates, anthropology, behavioral economics, political science, philosophy, religion, and natural sciences2. This book is trans-disciplinary."