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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DEC 12, 2006 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Sleeplessness from Seattle
Starbucks Coffee is sending a blended message on fair trade: The company established Coffee and Farmer Equity Practices, but it is also resisting Ethiopia's efforts ...
NOV 21, 2006 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Putting Teeth in Corporate Social Responsibility
Keith Slack discusses how corporate social responsibility could become more effective by changing the incentives that govern corporate access to capital and markets.
AUG 23, 2006 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: A Girl's Best Friend? Conflict Diamonds and Corporate Social Responsibility
By the time diamonds reach New York City shops, most have made an arduous journey from large dirt pits in Africa, passing through the hands ...
APR 6, 2005 • Podcast
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Globalization, particularly outsourcing, is leveling the playing field around the world, says columnist Thomas Friedman, making India a major player.
DEC 2, 2004 • Transcript
Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas
The loss of numerous jobs to outsourcing harms the middle class and presents a grave threat to the U.S. economy, argues Lou Dobbs.
MAY 7, 2004 • Article
The Impact of Corporations on Global Governance
In this report of the Empire and Democracy Project three leading corporate social responsibility (CSR) experts discuss the growing influence of corporate power on democratic ...
OCT 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 4 (Fall 2000): Who Can Protect Workers' Rights? The Workplace Codes of Conduct Debates: Articles: The Promise of Corporate Codes of Conduct
Both voluntary codes of conduct and legal regulation are clearly needed, but Donaldson argues that codes are more effective when owned by the ...
APR 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 2 (Spring 2000): Litigating Human Rights: Promise v. Perils: Articles: The Story from the Oil Patch: The Under-Represented in Aguinda v. Texaco
The Aguinda v. Texaco lawsuit and its impact on the people fo the remote Amazon region in Ecuador has provided an opportunity to make ...
APR 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 2 (Spring 2000): Litigating Human Rights: Promise v. Perils: Articles: An Incomplete Victory at Ok Tedi
As the Ok Tedi case sadly demonstrates, policy reforms and legal precedents do not necessarily translate into improved conditions for the peoples whose rights have ...
APR 6, 2000 • Article
Human Rights Dialogue (1994–2005): Series 2, No. 2 (Spring 2000): Litigating Human Rights: Promise v. Perils: Articles: The Meaning of a Legal Victory in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Tamara Jezic and Chris Jochnickv try to find the meaning of a legal victory in the case of Arco Oriente and towns of Shuar and ...