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Top 15 Points of Democratic Party’s 2012 Finance Platform
1. Rebuild the middle class 2. Invest in infrastructure with savings from winding down overseas … read more
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Top 15 Points of G.O.P.’s Finance Platform
1. Advance free markets 2. Reduce personal and corporate taxes. 3. Constitutional amendment requiring a … read more
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SPIN Summer 2012
The Seven Pillars Institute Newsletter, SPIN, is available for your reading pleasure (SPIN: SPI Newsletter … read more
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The Desolate History of Ethics in Finance
Dr. Kara Tan Bhala recently delivered a lecture on, “Ethics in Finance: Its Desolate … read more
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Caveat Emptor
Latin term meaning “Let the Buyer beware”. This term adheres to the basic premise that … read more
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Exploitation
Utilization of others with the motive of self-interest. One person taking an unfair advantage of … read more
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Veil of Ignorance
A hypothetical mental state, in John Rawls version of Social Contract Theory, in which we … read more
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Lockean Proviso
This proviso is an ‘enough and as good’ clause on original acquisition, stating that we … read more
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Moral Absolutism
Moral absolutism is an ethical view claiming essentially that all forms of human conduct can … read more
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Political Pluralism
Political pluralism begins with the basic claim that there exists a variety of differing value … read more