1. Professor of Philosophy College of Mount St. Joseph
The First
Business Transaction
Ronald F. White, Phd.
Professor of Philosophy
College of Mount St. Joseph

2. The Corporation in American Society
The premier social institution of the twentieth century
Commerce and the “good life.”
Goods and Services

3. Evolutionary Foundations
Resources: food, water, clothing, etc
The First Business Transaction
Human Nature (Conscious, Biological)
Self-interest
Rationality
Cooperation-
Hypothesis: The natural history of business enterprise requires at least a certain degree of self-interested cooperation between at least two intelligent organisms in the exchange of goods and/or services.

4. Evolutionary Foundations
Human Beings as Survival Machines
Cooperation vs. Predation
Altruism vs. Competition
Altruism
Ideal
Kin-Altruism
Reciprocal Altruism
Problems of Predation and Cheating
Business with Relatives, Friends, Strangers
Evolutionary Moral Landscape
Recognizing relatives, friends, strangers.
Remembering reciprocators and cheaters
language
Evolution of Criminal Justice
Hierarchical Social Structures
Biological Evolution vs. Social or Cultural Evolution