Everyday Greed: Analysis and Appraisal

Part I: Identifying Greed in Our Everyday World.- Chapter 1. The Unavoidability of Greed? (Michael S. Pritchard and Elaine E. Englehardt).- Chapter 2. Tales of Greed and the Search for Remedies (Elaine E. Englehardt and Michael S. Pritchard).- Part II:  Normative Assessments of Greed.- Chapter 3. Understanding Greed and Wrongness (Alexander Hoffmann).- Chapter 4.   Against the Need for Greed (Chance Lacina).- Chapter 5. The Irrationality of Greed (Kaleb Terbush).- Chapter 6. Greed and Social Context (Chad Watson).- Chapter 7. Greed and Addiction (Ian Everitt).- Chapter 8. Greed, the Market, and Human Flourishing (Rebecca Cobern Kates).

Michael S. Pritchard is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University.  He continues occasionally to teach courses in practical ethics, business ethics, media ethics, the history of 18th century Scottish moral philosophy (Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and David Hume), as well as the philosophical thinking of children. He is a founding member of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) and of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum (SEAC). For 7 years he served as co-editor, with Elaine Englehardt, of SEAC's official journal, Teaching Ethics.  Among his many publications are: Philosophical Adventures With Children (University Press of America: 1985); On Becoming Responsible (University Press of Kansas: 1991); Communication Ethics, with James Jaksa (Wadsworth: 1988 & 1994); Engineering Ethics: Concepts & Cases, with C.E.Harris, Michael Rabins, Ray James, Elaine Englehardt (Cengage: 1995, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2018); Reasonable Children (University Press of Kansas: 1996); Professional Integrity (University Press of Kansas: 2007); Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration, co-edited with Elaine Englehardt, Kerry Romesburg, and Brian Schrag (Springer: 2010); Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making, with Patricia Werhane, Laura Hartman, Crina Archer, and Elaine Englehardt (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Ethics Across the Curriculum-Pedagogical Perspectives, co-edited with Elaine Englehardt (Springer: 2018). 

Elaine Englehardt is the Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University (UVU).  For almost thirty years, she has written and directed seven multi-year, national grants in the area of Ethics and Ethics Across the curriculum. One grant founded the Ethics program at UVU, and another funded the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum and the journal Teaching