Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues

N. Dobos, C. Barry, T. Pogge

Palgrave Macmillan UK, Mar 4, 2011 - Philosophy - 195 pages

The Global Financial Crisis is acknowledged to be the most severe economic downturn since the 1930s, and one that is unique in its underlying causes, its scope, and its wider social, political and economic implications. This volume explores some of the ethical issues that it has raised.

About the author

NOAM CHOMSKY Institute Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology JOHN C. HARRINGTON President and CEO of socially responsible investing and shareholder advocacy firm Harrington Investments Inc SEUMAS MILLER Professor of Philosophy at Charles Sturt University and the Australian National University (joint position) MATT PETERSON Post-graduate fellow in the Global Justice Program at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University

Bibliographic information

• Title: Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues
• Editors: N. Dobos, C. Barry, T. Pogge
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011
• ISBN: 0230276636, 9780230276635
• Length: 195 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Business Ethics; Business & Economics / Economics / Macroeconomics; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Political; Philosophy / Social; Political Science / Political Economy; Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy