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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

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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JUN 9, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Information Gaps Hinder CSR Achievement

IBM recently completed its second annual survey of senior executives from around the world on the importance of green and sustainability issues to their corporate ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Photo <br>by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31910792@N05/3492139088/">James Gordon</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

MAY 27, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: What's Wrong with Diplomacy in Damascus

The Obama administration has reversed former President George W. Bush's isolationist policies toward Syria, but has little to show for it. The government will need ...

Spencer Zuzolo instructs a student.

MAY 5, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Digital Workforce Initiative Transforms Gulf Coast Job Prospects

One means to revitalize the post-Katrina Louisiana economy is to educate a digital workforce steeped in twenty-first century skills: creative collaboration, communication, and interactive media ...

Hit and run. Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chozno01/2049157702/">Claudio</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 24, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The G-20's Global Hit-and-Run

The economic crisis has been compared to familiar catastrophes such as the sinking Titanic and a tsunami. But the car crash analogy works much better ...

Trust. Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorinside/194806347/" target="_blank">Neil Sanche</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>)

APR 22, 2009 Podcast

Restoring Trust in the Global Financial System

This Workshop for Ethics in Business panel analyzes the growing lack of trust in the financial system and how it threatens to keep the global ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blixt/171174944/">Martin McKenna</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 20, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Europe Calls U.S. on Gambling Laws

Europe's WTO complaint has re-raised the issue of gambling legalization and regulation in the United States -- a topic that should arouse the interest of ...

The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing

APR 16, 2009 Podcast

The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing

A fat tail is an event that seems unlikely to occur, but when it does, it causes havoc--like the global financial crisis.  What will the ...

Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/3191664147/">Kevin Dooley</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 15, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Homo sociens and the New Ecological Growth Economy

What does it mean to build an economy on sound ecological principles? It means that all forms of business and other human activity will be ...

Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gi/388322867/">Gisela Giardino</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 9, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Decouple the World from the Dollar

We have to wean the world off its dependence on U.S. overspending without sticking the United States and the world economy in a depression, ...

APR 3, 2009 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Ethics and Experts

How should we reward experts and how much? When the experts fail, should populist outrage be directed at those individuals or the system?