When we try to judge an activity or institution, we need to know what is its nature or purpose. If you travel, to tell how well you are doing it is necessary to know where you want to go. If one wishes to judge parenting or teaching or scholarship, one needs to know what these are so as to...

A bona fide morality favours a consistent free market capitalist system of law. If there are dangers and temptations arising from such a society, let the various institutions that can develop among free people respond to them. Individuals and their various voluntary organisations – not...

Two theories dominate business ethics – shareholder and stakeholder. By the former, shareholders hire managers to manage the firm to make it prosper. By the latter, corporate managers are morally responsible to advance the well-being of all who may be affected. Another version of this dispute...

This paper starts by asking why we should even bother about the ethics of globalisation, or, indeed, the ethics of any institution or public policy. It then outlines the antagonism towards globalisation and the importance of tackling the ethics of the matter. It is not enough to simply show that...

In the wake of the recent financial fiasco, many are rushing to judgement and condemning capitalism as the culprit. This is wrong. First of all no Western country is fully capitalist – they are all mixed systems, with elements of socialism, egalitarianism, capitalism, fascism, the welfare...

Purpose – Aims to question whether political principles, for example, those of socialism or libertarianism, have lasting significance. Design/methodology/approach – Lays out a case for the stability of at least one variety of political principle, namely that of libertarianism or classical...