
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."
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Speakers and Events
Faculty Panel Discussion: Markets and Morals
Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 5:00 pm, Hillel Multipurpose Room
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
Saturday, October 29, 2016, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Hillel Multipurpose Room
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- About the Mudd Center
- People
-
Programs and Events
- 2024-2025: How We Live and Die: Stories, Values, and Communities
- 2023-2024: Ethics of Design
- 2022-2023: Beneficence: Practicing an Ethics of Care
- 2021-2022: Daily Ethics: How Individual Choices and Habits Express Our Values and Shape Our World
- 2020-2021: Global Ethics in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- 2019-2020: The Ethics of Technology
- 2018-2019: The Ethics of Identity
- 2017-2018: Equality and Difference
- 2016-2017: Markets and Morals
- 2015-2016: The Ethics of Citizenship
- 2014-2015: Race and Justice in America
- Leadership Lab
- Mudd Undergraduate Journal of Ethics
- Highlights
- Mudd Center Fellows Program
- Get Involved
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