2016-2017: Markets and Morals

2016-2017: Markets and Morals

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Our economic life raises a number of important ethical questions: What commodities should (and should not) be exchanged in the market? What is the relationship between a thing’s price and its value? Is voluntary exchange always just? What are the moral obligations of producers and consumers? What, if anything, is owed to those who lose out in market competition? Are corporations moral agents? How does the operation of the market impact behavior and character, and is this a good or bad thing? The purpose of this year’s theme is to examine these and other issues relating to “Markets and Morals."

Below is a list of upcoming theme-related events and activities. To receive information about these and other Mudd Center events, please join our mailing list.

Speakers and Events

Faculty Panel Discussion: Markets and Morals

Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 5:00 pm, Hillel Multipurpose Room

Peter Singer

Peter Singer

Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Talk Title: Permitting the Sale of Meat but not Kidneys or Sex? Some Questions about Markets and Morals
Thursday, October 6, 2016, 5:00 pm, University Chapel

Ethics of Environmental Valuation Conference

Ethics of Environmental Valuation Conference

Saturday, October 29, 2016, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Hillel Multipurpose Room

George Bent

George Bent

Sidney Gause Childress Professor of the Arts, Washington and Lee

Talk Title: Picturing Morality in the Markets of Medieval Florence
Thursday, November 1, 2016, 12:00 pm, Hillel Multipurpose Room

Kimberly Krawiec

Kimberly Krawiec

Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor of Law, Duke University

Talk Title: Gifts Versus Markets or Gifts Within Markets? Taboo Trades in the Human Body
Monday, November 14, 2016, 5:00 pm, Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library

Nien-hê Hsieh

Nien-hê Hsieh

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University

Talk Title: The Role and Responsibilities of Business in Society: Back to Basics
Thursday, December 1, 2016, 5:00 pm, Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library

Susan Briante

Susan Briante

Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, University of Arizona

Talk Title: The Market Wonders: On the Impossibility of (Personal) Accounting
Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 5:00 pm, Hillel Multipurpose Room

Jennifer Golbeck

Associate Professor of Information Studies and Director of the Social Intelligence Lab, University of Maryland

Talk Title: Footprints in the Digital Dust: How Your Online Behavior Says More Than You Think
Thursday, February 2, 2017, 5:00 pm, Stackhouse Theater, Elrod Commons

Sandra Reiter

Sandra Reiter

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Washington and Lee

Talk Title: Can Corporations Be Morally Responsible?
Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 12:00 pm, Hillel Multipurpose Room

Neil Brodie

Neil Brodie

Senior Research Fellow, Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Talk Title: Controlling the Globalized Market in Cultural Objects: Closing the Gap Between Law and Ethics
Thursday, March 2, 2017, 5:00 pm, Stackhouse Theater, Elrod Commons

Conference on the Ethics of Acquiring Cultural Heritage Objects

Conference on the Ethics of Acquiring Cultural Heritage Objects

Friday, March 3, 2017, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Hillel Multipurpose Room

Robert Reich

Professor of Politics, Stanford University

Talk Title: Repugnant to the whole idea of a democratic society?: On the role of philanthropic foundations
Thursday, March 30, 2017, 5:00 pm, Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library

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