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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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FEB 4, 2009 Article

Doing the Right Thing: How Organizations Can Help us Make Ethical Decisions

What sorts of features must we instill in a collective to make it easier for people to make the decision to tell the truth? What ...

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

FEB 4, 2009 Podcast

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

George Friedman, founder and CEO of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., asks: What's in store during this new century? Which nations will gain and lose power? How ...

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JAN 22, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Carbon Marketing Wars Have Begun

Carbon Trust has shaped the future marketing war over environmental sustainability by developing a carbon reduction label for consumer goods and services.

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/emraya/2867188734/">Emre Ayaroglu</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 21, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Is Ethical Capitalism Possible?

How can business models become more sustainable? Fortunately, global human civilization has all the moral tools it needs.

JAN 16, 2009 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Choosing between Markets, Regulation, and Rewards

How can we resolve the financial melt-down and prevent another? Solutions focus on free markets, regulation, or rewards. Perhaps we should balance all three? How?

JAN 16, 2009 Podcast

Political Futures Jan 09 Segment 1: Financial Crisis (5:14 mins)

Does the U.S. have the political capacity and willingness to respond to the global economic crisis?

JAN 15, 2009 Podcast

Political Futures Jan 09 Segment 6: Insuring Against Global Riots (9:35 mins)

If we look around and see all the different threats and we had some money to spend on insurance, where should we be investing against ...

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JAN 14, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Boosting Access to Medicine

As cases from Indonesia to India have demonstrated, affordable drugs are often unavailable to the people who need them at the times they need them ...

DEC 19, 2008 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Trade Liberalization and the Financial Crisis

What does the financial crisis imply? Should we liberalize trade on agriculture and services? Or should we protect domestic producers?

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/steviezj/248886048/">Stephen Jones</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 18, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The New Science of Sustainable Dynamics

The concept of sustainability is used as a policy guide today, but beyond this important sense of applied ethics sustainability must also become a science.