Elizabeth Warren Pushes for Lower Student Loan Rates (0.75%) for One Year
May 16th, 2013The Senator from Massachusetts is sponsoring her first bill, “The Bank on Students Loan Fairness ...
Oxford University Lecture
St. Cross College, Oxford
The Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University invited Dr. Kara Tan Bhala to give a lecture for its St. Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series. The presentation took place on Thursday, May 30th at St. Cross College, Oxford.
The title of the talk was “Ethics in Finance: A New Financial Theory for a Post-Financialised World”.
The audio file is now available at http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/uehiro/TT13_STX_KTB.mp3 .
The audio file will also be distributed on the Uehiro Centre’s RSS feed and appear on the Centre’s website at http://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/multimedia/audio
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Financial crises, perpetrators, and justice
Justice is an ancient concept. We often think of the term as synonymous with law or lawfulness. But a broader sense of the word is closer to fairness. Behavioral finance studies indicate 
people have an inherent sense of justice or fairness. This view of human nature clashes with the classical economic view of “homo economicus”.
Aristotle’s definition of justice is still widely accepted today. He says justice consists in treating equals equally and unequals unequally but in proportion to their relevant differences. Justice, in other words, is giving each person her due.
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Moral Cents
Moral Cents is The Journal of Ethics in Finance, produced on a regular basis by the Seven Pillars Institute for Global Finance and Ethics. Click HERE to see the latest issues and read them in full.