An ethical analysis of corporate bailouts

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This article examines corporate bailouts from several ethical perspectives. Utilitarian analysis concludes that bailouts cannot be ethically justified because the losers exceed the winners. Applying rights theory reaches the same conclusion for different reasons.

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Robert W. McGee
Fayetteville State University

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