Question 1: Should a nation's own internal economy be organized as a free market economy? Please give your opinion and reasons for your opinion.
Read the Singline story on pages 127-128.
Question 2: Is it ethical for a company to abandon workers who have given decades of their lives to make it succeed?
Question 3: What ethical obligations, if any, does a company have to the workers left behind when it moves to another country?
Question 4: What ethical obligations do companies have toward heir foreign workers?
Question 5: Should government allow companies to move their operations to other countries, or should it try to prevent or slow their exit?
Question 6: As companies continuously search for cheaper labor, will this produce a "race to the bottom" that will unjustly reduce workers' standards of living throughout the world?
Read about Abbott Laboratories on pages 128-129.
Question 7: Has global free trade unjustly benefitted multinational companies at the expense of poor nations?
Question 8: Is it ethical for multinational companies - such as the large drug companies - to influence the rules that govern international trade and bend them to serve their own corporate interests?
Question 9: Should governments intervene when companies seem to be engaging in unethical behavior? Is it ethical for governments to intervene in business affairs?
Question 10: Is it ethical for the governments of poor nations to take a company's patented drug property without the consent of the company?
Read On the Edge - Marx's Children. Relevance of Marx Today
Question 11: How would Marx explain why there is so much child labor in the world today?
Question 12: What ethical obligations do companies have in order to deal with these issues? Why?