Global financial crisis: the ethical issues

The Global Financial Crisis is acknowledged to be the most severe economic downturn since the 1930s, and one that is unique in its underlying causes, its scope, and its wider social, political and economic implications. This volume explores some of the ethical issues that it has raised. NED DOBOS Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University and the University of Melbourne, Australia.His research interests include morality and political violence, the ethics ofwar, and business ethics. He is the author of 'Insurrection and Intervention'(forthcoming). CHRISTIAN BARRY Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Australian National University. He has served as a consultant and contributing author to three UN Development Programme's Human Development Reports, was editor of Ethics & International Affairs, and directed the Carnegie Council's Justice and theWorld Economy program. His research focuses on closing the gap between theoryand practice in international justice. THOMAS POGGE Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale and Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE). He has published widely on Kant and in moral and practical philosophy. INDICE: Notes on Contributors - Introduction; 'N.Dobos' - Global FinancialInstitutions, Ethics and Market Fundamentalism; 'S.Miller' - The Legitimacy of the Financial System and State Capitalism; 'N.Chomsky' - Neoliberalismb Is This the End?; 'N.Dobos - 'Ethical Investing in an Age of Excessive Materialistic Self-Interest; 'J.C.Harrington - 'The Achilles Heel of Competitive/Adversarial; 'T.Pogge - 'Financial Services Providers: Integrity Systems, Reputation, and the Triangle of Virtue; 'S.Miller' - Who Must Pay for the Damage of the Global Financial Crisis; 'M.Peterson' & 'C.Barry' - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27663-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 04/03/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido