This paper uses the current economic crisis to highlight the importance of ethical cultivation in the educational process relating – not exclusively – to economists' vocation. To do this, the author borrowed ideas from ancient Greek philosophy, as well as some very recent real-life examples.

Many surveys analyse the volatility of stock market indexes, omitting the role of individual stocks in that phenomenon. In the present study, we focus on that part of the market, using financial and market data from listed firms in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) index in several crashes, during...