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Synopsis In a highly complex, interdependent technological society, the tolerance for deviant behaviour is narrower and shallower than in earlier times. One small bomb, in a power plant, can leave portions of a great city in darkness, close scores of manufacturing plants, disrupt airports, and spoil food in a hundred-thousand home freezers. The few individuals, who hijacked aeroplanes, cost a vast public millions of rupees and much inconvenience. Thus, as individuals and as a public, citizens have got to be more responsible and ethical than our grandparents needed to be. We must understand this obligation if we hope to live in freedom. The key to move upward to a new plateau of values, to a higher quality of life never reached by any other people, is the same that enabled man in the beginning to survive _ cooperation and reciprocity. Our technology has not served to make the golden rule obsolete, but, instead, has made its application increasingly essential. The book answers: What is ethics? How honesty can lead to freedom? How economics is grounded in the ethics? What is the relationship between economic and ethical evolution? How these relate to freedom? How adaptation and its disorder, maladaptation, bears upon matters of freedom, ethics and the place of free enterprise in contemporary society? What are the challenges faced by the free enterprise? What is the role of freedom and codes in capitalistic enterprises, transnational enterprises and bureaucracy? How ethics has acted as the law between unequals? What are the possibilities of legal limitations? How codes of ethics can be self-enforced? What role honesty and professional ethics play in the fields of medicine, law, accounting and government service? How codes of ethics are used and viewed by labour unions and chiefs of police? This is a pioneering work, where author attempts to address these and many such issues, comprehensively.