Framing ethical perspectives
Business and commerce are at the heart of Western capitalist societies, and they play an ever-increasing role in quasi-capitalist societies, like China. Businesses – especially the tech giants – are becoming increasingly powerful as technologies proliferate and leaders acquire once-unimaginable levels of wealth and influence. Carnegie Council’s programs, events, and experts analyze these developments through an ethical lens and strive to create and highlight communities and programs with the capabilities to hold businesses and their leaders accountable for their actions.
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NOV 15, 2023 • Podcast
Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World, with Bethany Allen
MAR 24, 2022 • Podcast
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.
MAY 6, 2022 • Podcast
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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JAN 20, 2011 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Latin America's China Challenge
China's growth has been a great boon to Latin America in the short-term. It is up to Latin American nations to translate these short-term gains ...
JAN 3, 2011 • Podcast
Putting Middle East Youth to Work: Partnering with Business to Turn a Youth Tsunami into an Asset
Founder and CEO Ron Bruder and VP Jasmine Nahhas di Florio introduce Education for Employment Foundation, an NGO that creates employment opportunities for youth in ...
NOV 22, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Kongjian Yu: The Art of Survival
Landscape architect Kongjian Yu is pioneering energy efficient and spiritually enriching designs to reconnect China's rapid urbanization to the land.
NOV 12, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Rare Earths Diplomacy
The world should expect China to leverage its dominance in rare earth elements to climb up the manufacturing value chain and build green technologies in ...
NOV 2, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Peer-to-Peer Microfinance Empowers Young Entrepreneurs
United Youth Development Organization facilitates peer-to-peer microlending between young people to tap their energy and innovation for sustainable entrepreneurship and development.
OCT 29, 2010 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: Neo-liberalism and Welfare
Do markets promote the greatest good for the greatest number? What do you think? Should long-term economic growth, promised by a free market, be prioritized ...
OCT 28, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Welcome to the Urban Revolution
We must become masters of a sustainable, just, and ecological urbanism writes Jeb Brugmann in his analysis of how the advantages of urban settlement are ...
OCT 25, 2010 • Podcast
Interview with William Powers, Living Off the Grid
William Powers discusses his life's journey, including time in Liberia and Bolivia, and a stay in a 12 x 12-foot cabin with no electricity or running ...
OCT 21, 2010 • Article
Ukraine: Reset to a Future of Strength
The "reset button" between Washington and Moscow, far from leaving our former Soviet allies in the cold, has enabled a country like Ukraine to pursue ...
OCT 13, 2010 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Recycling Global Imbalances
Is the United States at long last getting serious about global imbalances, or are we risking currency wars that can end in unmitigated disaster for ...