As an understandable reaction to the crude, dogmatic empiricism of the German Historical School, Ludwig von Mises became an uncompromising spokesman for pure, a priori economic theory—untainted by ...

Some economists consider their discipline a science, and thereby divorced from messy ethical details, the normative passions of right and wrong. They teach in a moral vacuum, perhaps even advocating ...

Ethics is an undervalued concept in economics. Economic teaching is calibrated to focus on issues related to growth, productivity and optimization. Professors and lecturers responsible for teaching ...

On February 20, 2001 the second speaker in the Boisi Center's Templeton Lecture series, Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, addressed a gathering of students and faculty in the Fulton Debate Room of ...

Pope Benedict XVI’s first social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth), is a strong plea for a closer connection between morality and the free economy. In the document, which was released ...

What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s ...

(RNS) — As the world approaches a tipping point in the climate change crisis, many people finally appear to be waking up to the need for radical change, although the Trump administration is still ...

Adam Smith himself was a moral philosopher, and many economists in the nineteenth century made significant contributions to what these days would be called social ethics. The last 30 years has seen ...

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This paper considers the revolutionary developments occurring in the field of genetic mapping and the genetic identification of disease propensities. These breakthroughs are discussed relative to the ...