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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Carnegie Ethics Fellows
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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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?
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.