Global Financial Crisis: The Ethical Issues

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Ned Dobos

   Pages 1-23

3. Global Financial Institutions, Ethics and Market Fundamentalism

   • Seumas Miller

   Pages 24-51

4. The Legitimacy of the Financial System and State Capitalism

   • Noam Chomsky

   Pages 52-62

5. Neoliberalism — Is This the End?

   • Ned Dobos

   Pages 63-81

6. Ethical Investing in an Age of Excessive Materialistic Self-Interest

   • John C. Harrington

   Pages 82-119

7. The Achilles’ Heel of Competitive/Adversarial Systems

   • Thomas Pogge

   Pages 120-131

8. Financial Services Providers: Integrity Systems, Reputation and the Triangle of Virtue

   • Seumas Miller

   Pages 132-157

9. Who Must Pay for the Damage of the Global Financial Crisis?

   • Matt Peterson, Christian Barry

   Pages 158-184

10. Back Matter

    Pages 185-195

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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.

• capitalism
• crisis
• ethics
• knowledge
• neoliberalism
• triangle

• Charles Sturt University, Australia

  Ned Dobos

• University of Melbourne, Australia

  Ned Dobos

• Australian National University, Australia

  Christian Barry, Thomas Pogge

• Yale University, USA

  Thomas Pogge

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

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