A New Issue of Moral Cents is Out!
April 23rd, 2013We are close to the five-year anniversary of the global financial crisis, if we take ...
Excerpt of Speech from Fundraiser
August 25th, 2011 by Kara in Essays, EventsDr. Tan Bhala delivered the talk on July 2011
The Three Levels of Ethics in Finance
I got the idea of nurturing a start-up, in the form of a financial ethics institute, at the beginning of the 21st century. I was leaving Wall Street and entering my MA/Ph.D. program in philosophy. The focus of the institute would be ethics in finance. The mission combined two of my great interests: finance, a field in which I enjoyed working for over two decades and moral philosophy, a study of which I had always ...
Ethics in the Media
August 25th, 2011 by Kara in NewsHeart and Soul, The BBC
The BBC has a report on whether one can have ethics and still make a living. Some people feel ethically compromised at the workplace. The report looks at the challenges of working ethics from a Buddhist perspective.
According to one student and practitioner of Buddhism, we should be suspicious when we are told there is no effective alternative to the current free-market capitalist system. This system exults greed and promotes individual self-interest. To make greed the ultimate value is perverse. To isolate the self is antithetical to ...