Neil H. Jacoby on Ethics
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Neil H. Jacoby, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Neil H. Jacoby, entry #79854: "An institution is likely to be more searchingly appraised if attention is focused at the outset upon its faults rather than its virtues."
Attributed to Neil H. Jacoby, entry #143549: "Because conduct judged improper or illegal in one culture may be considered quite proper—even unavoidable—in other cultures, we have been chary of making moral judgments. Thus, we…"
4 Quotes by Neil H. Jacoby on Ethics
"An institution is likely to be more searchingly appraised if attention is focused at the outset upon its faults rather than its virtues."
"Because conduct judged improper or illegal in one culture may be considered quite proper—even unavoidable—in other cultures, we have been chary of making moral judgments. Thus, we have sought to avoid the twin pitfalls of arrogant ethnocentrism and moral absolutism."
"Thus the principle that no foreign political payments shall be made often collides with the principle that we should expand international trade and investment, that multinational companies should conform to local business practices, that the United States should avoid extraterritorial application of its laws, or that this county should abjure moral as well as political and economic imperialism."
"The American tendency to equate economic efficiency with moral virtue has deep roots in our history. It helps to explain why Americans so widely embraced the ideology of Adam Smith… Competition in open markets was seen as the most efficient way to allocate limited human resources and to maximize the satisfaction of human wants. Interference with market processes by government officials—whether lawful or illicit—was interpreted as not only inefficient but immoral."