This article applies moral and legal theory to the present crisis in the Crimea and concludes that the only moral solution is to allow the people who live in the Crimea to determine whether they want to remain part of the Ukraine, become part of Russia or form an independent nation

Communism has been responsible for the deaths of perhaps 100 million or more people, not to mention the countless survivors whose lives have been made miserable because of it. Karl Marx was one of the principal architects of what we now call communism. What would the world be like today if Marx...

Antidumping laws have taken on added significance since the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of GATT. Prior to the Uruguay Round, only about 40 countries enforced antidumping laws. After the Uruguay Round, all 120+ signatories have agreed to incorporate antidumping laws into their trade policy....

This paper examines ethics in international trade from several different ethical perspectives, including consequentialism, utilitarianism, virtue ethics and deontology. The views of Aristotle, Plato, Adam Smith, Bentham, Kant, Pareto, Rawls, Flew, Nozick, Bastiat and others are discussed and...

Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933. The result was World War II. Perhaps the war could have been avoided if Hitler had not become chancellor of Germany, or maybe World War II was inevitable because of the poor terms Germany received in the Treaty of Versailles. ChatGPT was asked to write an...

Accounting education has become quite rigid, mostly because it is structured along the lines of a monopoly. The American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) has been granted a national monopoly by the Department of Education to accredit business programs and the six regional...

This paper addresses the issue of whether Donald Trump should impose a 35% tariff on the importation of certain goods from China and Mexico, and presumably other countries. Applying utilitarian ethics leads to the conclusion that the tariff should not be imposed. The same result is obtained by...

Antidumping laws have existed in some form since the early twentieth century. Ostensibly aimed at protecting domestic producers from unfair trade practices, they have frequently been used as weapons of protectionism even when dumping has not occurred. When this happens, some special interest...

This paper examines the question of whether it is ethical for company officials to use the force of government to reduce or eliminate foreign competition, using the antidumping laws as a case study. This paper begins with a brief examination of the U.S. antidumping laws, then examines several...