These three podcasts come together well in telling a larger story about the state of ethics in business today. I encourage you to listen to them. They would work well as assignments in your classes.
The Cooperative Economy
A Solution to Societal Grand Challenges
Dovev Lavie
The cooperative economy is an ethical community-driven exchange system that relies on collective action to promote societal values while accounting for resource constraints. The book explains how this new system uses design principles to promote the self-sufficiency of communities, sustainability, and entrepreneurship while limiting overconsumption and excessive profit-making.
Dovev Lavie, "The Cooperative Economy: A Solution to Societal Grand Challenges" (Routledge, 2023) - New Books Network
Business Ethics
What Everyone Needs to Know
J. S. Nelson
Drawing on Lynn Stout's influential work on corporate governance, the authors challenge the common belief that corporate law requires managers to maximize shareholder value at all times. In reality, corporate directors and managers are expected to exercise business judgment that balances long-term corporate health, stakeholder relationships, and legal responsibilities.
J. S. Nelson, "Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know" (Oxford UP, 2021) - New Books Network
Billionaire Backlash
The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy
Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee
Giant companies, launch rockets into space, control satellite communication and develop era-defining AI technologies. But they are also seen as promoting misinformation, undermining democracy and violating privacy. Big banks, reeling since the financial crisis of 2008, continue to be racked with major scandals. Drawing on examples such as the VW scandal in Germany, Cambridge Analytica and Samsung the authors of this book show that these scandals are opportunities for real political change.
Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee, "Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2026) - New Books Network