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Title

Global financial crisis : the ethical issues / edited by Ned Dobos, Christian Barry, Thomas Pogge.

Publication

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Dobos, Ned.
• Barry, Christian
• Pogge, Thomas, 1953-

Description

viii, 195 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• PHILOSOPHY / Political
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics
• PHILOSOPHY / Social
• PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
• Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
• Financial crises
• Philosophy
• Business ethics
• Economics
• Ethics
• Political science > Philosophy
• Social sciences > Philosophy
• Macroeconomics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Ned Dobos -- Global financial institutions, ethics and market fundamentalism / Seumas Miller -- The legitimacy of the financial system and state capitalism / Noam Chomsky -- Neoliberalism: is this the end? / Ned Dobos -- Ethical investing in an age of excessive materialistic self-interest / John C. Harrington -- The Achilles' heel of competitive/adversarial systems / Thomas Pogge -- Financial services providers: integrity systems, reputation and the triangle of virtue / Seumas Miller -- Who must pay for the damage of the global financial crisis? / Matt Peterson and Christian Barry.

ISBN

• 9780230293519 (pbk.)
• 0230293514 (pbk.)
• 9780230276635
• 0230276636

LCCN

^^2011001476

OCLC

682891265

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library