The seeds for the 2007-09 financial collapse were sewn over many years and nurtured by ill-advised governmental housing policy, the presence of pervasive fraud both large and small and the widespread failure of personal integrity. A chronology of bad choices made by individuals and the...

Purpose This research aims to study budgetary slack from a behavioural perspective, especially examining the effect of gender and code of ethics on budgetary slack ethical judgment. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts the experimental method of 2 × 3 between-subjects mixed factorial...

Resource allocations of all kinds inevitably encounter financial constraints, making it infeasible to make financially unbounded commitments. Such resource constraints arise in almost all health and safety risk contexts, which has led to a regulatory oversight process to ascertain whether the...

Millions of people in the developing world lack access to curative drugs. Thomas Pogge identifies the cause for this problem in a lack of redistribution across borders. By contrast, this article shows that institutional shortcomings within developing countries are the main issue. The different...

This is a research proposal for a project to be completed during a part-time Non-Residential Lab Fellowship from the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. The term of the project would be between September 2013 and June 2014. Complex ethical situations, such as end-of-life medical treatment...

In seinem neuen Buch möchte der ehemalige DBS-Präsident und heutige Präsident der Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz zeigen, dass so, wie Marktwirtschaft und freier Informationsfluss Demokratie und Menschenrechte verbreiten, sich mit der Globalisierung die Chance einer...