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The article, “Inside Trading Revisited,” has taken the stance that insider trading is neither unethical nor economically inefficient. Attacking my arguments to the contrary developed in an earlier article, ‘The Ethics of Inside Trading’ (Journal of Business Ethics, 1989) this article constructs careful arguments and even appeals to Adam Smith to justify its conclusions. In my response to this article I shall clarify my position as well as that of Smith to support my counter-contention that insider trading is both unethical and inefficient.
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Patricia H. Werhane is the Henry J. Wirtenberger Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University, Chicago. She is the author or editor of seven books including ‘Ethical Issues in Business’,edited with Tom Donaldson, in its third edition, ‘Persons, Rights, and Corporations, Profits and Responsibility’,and ‘Philosophical Issues in Human Rights’,edited with David Ozar and A. R. Gini. She is past president of the Society for Value Inquiry, founding member, past president and Executive Director of the Society of Business Ethics, and Chairperson of the Ethics Advisory Council of Arthur Andersen & Co. She serves on the editorial boards of the ‘Journal of Business Ethics’,the ‘Journal of Value-Based Management, and Public Affairs Quarterly’,and is Editor-in-Chief of ‘Business Ethics Quarterly’.Her book, ‘Adam Smith and his Legacy for Modern Capitalism’is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
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Werhane, P.H. The indefensibility of insider trading. J Bus Ethics 10, 729–731 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00705879
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