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Framing ethical perspectives

Business and commerce are at the heart of capitalist societies, and are becoming increasingly powerful as technologies proliferate and leaders acquire vast amounts of wealth and influence. Carnegie Council’s programs, events, and experts analyze these developments through an ethical lens.

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NOV 15, 2023 Podcast

Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World, with Bethany Allen

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The Doorstep: How Cryptocurrencies & NFTs May Change the Global World Order, with David Yermack

NYU Stern's Professor David Yermack discusses NFTs, Ukraine, and the future of crypto with Carnegie Council Senior Fellows Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin.

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For Companies, Could China Be the Next Russia? with Perth Tolle

Isaac Stone Fish and finance expert Perth Tolle discuss the global economic backlash to Russia after the Ukraine invasion, China, and much more.

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Fire in the Blood

SEP 7, 2013 Article

Ethics on Film: Discussion of "Fire in the Blood"

With the tagline "Medicine, Monopoly, Malice," this powerful documentary tells how Western drug companies fought to keep discounted AIDS medications from reaching HIV-positive citizens of ...

CREDIT: Photo courtesy of Ghana Bamboo Bikes.

SEP 4, 2013 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Ghana Builds Bamboo Bikes

A bamboo bicycle builder in Ghana is working to end the triple problem of poverty, unemployment, and environmental degradation by training rural migrants in manufacturing ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/meanestindian/4195782519/">Meena Kadri</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

AUG 20, 2013 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: POEM: Tomorrow's Child

This poem was written to convey the imperative of sustainability. As geographical lines blur due to trade and markets, so can ethics.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-123301510/stock-photo-shanghai-skyline-in-sunrise-china.html">Shanghai Skyline at Sunrise</a>  via Shutterstock

AUG 14, 2013 Article

Some Thoughts on the Ethics of China's Rise

In this nuanced and knowledgeable piece, Wyne analyses China's changing values and challenges as the country takes a more prominent role on the world stage, ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/arselectronica/7406755166/in/photostream/">Ars Electronica</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

AUG 1, 2013 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The 'Copter Will See You Now

As countries develop policies for civilian and commercial drones, it is important to apply ethical standards that are permissive of innovation.

<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-129779477/stock-photo-senso-ji-temple-in-tokyo-japan.html">Senso-Ji Temple in Tokyo</a> via Shutterstock

JUL 23, 2013 Article

Now That Abe Won Control of the Government, the True Test of Abenomics Begins

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his ruling Liberal Democrat Party, and his "Abenomics" economic revitalization platform won solid victories in Japan's recent upper house elections. But ...

CREDIT: Devin Stewart

JUL 11, 2013 Article

Globalization Is the Unsung Champion of the Protests Happening Around the World

Through the late 80s and 90s, protests everywhere from Berlin to Seattle revealed a common target of public unrest: globalization. Now, however, globalization has become ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/agecombahia/3568970666/">Manu Dias</a>, (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC</a>)

JUL 10, 2013 Article

Venezuela: An Ethical Foreign Policy?

Some observers see Venezuela's foreign policy as promoting international solidarity with the oppressed, combating poverty, and pushing for a just world order free of uni-polar ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calwhiz/3163137625/">calwhiz</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JUL 2, 2013 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: China's Ecological Pivot

The World Cultural Forum held this spring in Hangzhou witnessed what may be an epochal pivot by the Chinese leadership toward an ecological future.

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JUN 18, 2013 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: WEF Proposes a Public-Private United "Nations"

The United Nations faces further erosion of authority if the World Economic Forum gets its way on global governance.