Marvin T Brown PhD has been teaching and consulting in business
and organizational ethics for over 30 years. His work first focused
on the challenges that workers and managers face in dealing with
differences and disagreement. As his work developed, he shifted to
a civic perspective for analyzing organizational relationships.
More recently, he applied a civic perspective to the economy, which
offers an alternative to both capitalism and socialism by basing
the economy not on property ownership or social classes, but on
civic membership in a global civil society.
He continues to teach business ethics in the Philosophy
Department at the University of San Francisco. He has previously
taught organizational ethics at Saybrook University, Alliant
International University and JFK University, all in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Along side his teaching, Marvin has served as
an ethics consultant for such companies as Levi Strauss and Company
and Northern California Automobile Association. He has also given
presentations at the Society of Business Ethics, the Association
for Professional and Practical Ethics, and the Association for
Social Economics in the USA; at the ISSBE meeting in Sao Paulo,
Brazil; the European Business Ethics Network in Bonn, Germany and
Dublin, Ireland, The Academy of Social Sciences in Warsaw, Poland;
the International Center for Education and Development in Caracas,
Venezuela; the University of Argentina, in Buenos Aires, Argentina;
and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in Shanghai, China.
Dr. Brown's academic degrees are from Nebraska Wesleyan
University (BA), Union Theological Union (MD), and Graduate
Theological Union (Ph.D.). He is the author of Working Ethics
(1990), The Ethical Process (1993), Corporate Integrity (2005), a
Choice selection for Outstanding Academic book in 2006, and
Civilizing the Economy (2010), which was selected by the PtoP
Foundation as 2010 Book of the Year. His books have been translated
into Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Italian, Chinese and
Korean. He has recently received a Faculty Service Award from the
University of San Francisco, and an Alumni Achievement Award from
Nebraska Wesleyan University. He is now a regular blogger on the
web site: civilizingtheeconomy.com
