The Ethics of Refugee Aid

This paper examines the ethics of refugee aid, attempting to answer ���Why do States engage in refugee aid?��� Moving beyond the simplistic answer based on the notion of charity, which demonstrably fits ill with the essentially positivist methodology of conducting refugee aid, an ethical model is construed based on the Weberian concept of action as an instrument of rationality. This is supported with critical readings from Hannah Arendt, amongst others, and also my own experiences as a former UNHCR aid worker. However, although this model better captures ground realities, it negates the individuality and humanity of refugees. Thus refugee aid as a form of global, transnational justice will be presented, based on readings from Amartya Sen.

Adam Smith, Moral Motivation and Business Ethics

This paper shows how Adam Smith���s concept of moral motivation applies to business ethics and ethical consumption. Moral motivation for Smith is embedded in his moral psychology and his theory of virtue, particularly in terms of socialization and our social interactions and in his view that people always seek approval for their conduct, either though actual or ideal spectators. It follows that right conduct depends on the spectator���s awareness of one���s conduct. Thus concerning business ethics, transparency and accountability are essential, as opposed to anonymity which is detrimental. Applying Smith���s theory of motivation to consumption entails two further points: One, information concerning business conduct without consumers seeking it and acting accordingly will only have a limited effect. Two, people���s concern for the propriety of their action can and should include consumption, such that purchasing behavior becomes a moral issue rather than a mere economic one.

An Ethical Analysis of Neoliberal Capitalism: Alternative Perspectives from Development Ethics

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Population Ethics, Social Choice Theory, and Two problems in the Measurement of Economic Poverty

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Rabbinic philosophy and ethics illustrated by haggadic parables and legends,

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Moral philosophy : or, Ethics and natural law /

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Teaching economic philosophy: Economics, ethics and the search for the right maximand

Economic philosophy is not often taught, and is not necessarily easily taught. It involves enquiry into implicit assumptions within orthodox economics and within alternatives to it. It seeks to highlight why it is that some critics object that neoclassical economics is too atomistic, hedonistic, and rationalistic, or why others lament that there is much hidden metaphysics in Friedman and his Chicago School colleagues. It addresses the issue of whether - in a reversal of the view that economics is the imperialistic social science - significant philosophical assumptions have been silently but inescapably imported into orthodox economics. This paper seeks to facilitate the presentation of such material with illustrations selected from social economics, development economics, and critiques of utilitarianism.

Ordered Conflict Resolution

Ordered conflict resolution: understanding her tenets cost Keynes his life and Arrow to live under extortionate threat. Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has conquered the Informal Capital Market Cartel���s stranglehold on academic freedom, the literature can now vindicate impossibility- resolved social choice theory in the venue of a marriage between ethics and economics; as Sen has pled need be the case. This paper introduces ordered conflict resolution and her two impossibility-resolving axioms in effecting (individual: societal) well-being transitivity.

Ethique sur le marche�� : comment permettre le succe��s de produit inte��grant une de��marche e��thique. Le cas de l���e��co conception

Nous proposons dans ce texte de de��finir les vecteurs de valorisation marketing pour une entreprise proposant des produits e��co-conc��us. Nous commencerons par de��finir l���e��co- conception en montrant en quoi c���est une innovation technique et manage��riale. Ensuite, nous pre��senterons notre cadre d'analyse : la RSE du point de vue de l'entreprise et la perception de la valeur environnementale par les consommateurs. Enfin, nous e��tudierons comment mettre sur le marche�� les produits e��co-conc��us.

Relating Fragile States to Social and Human Fragilities

Fragile States is a way of naming this particular category of states that have weak performance, insufficient service delivery, weak administrative and government power, and lack of legal rules. Little consideration is usually made to the fact that their own societies may also be fragile and easily jeopardised by inappropriate economic measures or external events. Poverty traps and social exclusion, unjust inequalities with lack of equity, feelings of insecurity and vulnerability, usually undermine the social fabric. Moreover, the people bear their own internal fragilities, which are based on the lack of capabilities and recognition, and interfere in the relationships between the groups that constitute the society. Therefore, dealing with the issue of fragility requires to consider various decision levels, from the personal one to the State level. Such an approach could allow fragile states to conceive preventive policies that would avoid the surge of a political crisis resulting from the combination of social conflict and individual failure.

Les fonds mutuels e��thiques ame��ricains : la pre��sence de croyances organisationnelles au c��ur de la performance sociale et financie��re.

Il y a plusieurs manie��res de classer les fonds mutuels e��thiques. L'une d'elles est de porter l'emphase sur le genre de croyances organisationnelles que nous pouvons retrouver dans ces fonds. Il y a des fonds mutuels e��thiques dans lesquels nous pouvons identifier des croyances a�� orientation financie��re qui tentent d'expliquer ou de justifier les choix faits par les gestionnaires de ces fonds. Certains autres fonds mutuels e��thiques sont pluto��t caracte��rise��s par leurs croyances a�� orientation sociale qui justifient leurs crite��res sociaux. Dans certains cas, les fonds mutuels e��thiques ont les deux genres de croyances. Nous avons analyse�� ici trois fonds mutuels e��thiques (Parnassus Equity Income Fund, Calvert Social Investment Fund Portfolio", "Domini Social Equity Fund") afin de voir si les fonds mutuels e��thiques ayant des croyances a�� orientation financie��re et/ou sociale auraient une meilleure performance financie��re que le S & P 500. Nous avons trouve�� que le fonds ayant la meilleure performance financie��re par rapport au S & P 500 e��tait un fonds mutuel e��thique ayant des croyances a�� orientation financie��re. Les deux autres fonds ayant des croyances a�� orientation sociale avaient une performance financie��re plus basse par rapport au S & P 500.

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