Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues

by N. Dobos (Editor), C. Barry (Editor), T. Pogge (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230293519
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/04/2011
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	195
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

NOAM CHOMSKY Institute Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology JOHN C. HARRINGTON President and CEO of socially responsible investing and shareholder advocacy firm Harrington Investments Inc SEUMAS MILLER Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University and the Australian National University (joint position) MATT PETERSON Post-graduate fellow in the Global Justice Program at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction; N.Dobos Global Financial Institutions, Ethics and Market Fundamentalism; S.Miller The Legitimacy of the Financial System and State Capitalism; N.Chomsky Neoliberalism—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